virulence
\vi.ʁy.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“virulence” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,068
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aptitude des microbes à se développer dans l’organisme et à y sécréter des poisons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virulence · virulence · French
virulence · rank #33,068 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,068
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Viennois
Nearest frequency peer: Viennois (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « virulence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- velvet
velvet
66,936 corpus weight
- venture
venture
66,935 corpus weight
- Viennois
Viennois
66,934 corpus weight
- virulence
virulence
66,933 corpus weight
- viticoles
viticoles
66,932 corpus weight
- voi
voi
66,931 corpus weight
What this shows « virulence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virulence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ʁy.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « virulence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around virulence (IPA \vi.ʁy.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,068 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for virulence, with forms such as "ivrulence", "virluence", and "virrulence". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "virulent", "virulente", "virulents", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is virulence, spelled V-I-R-U-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Aptitude des microbes à se développer dans l’organisme et à y sécréter des poisons.
- 2Qualité de ce qui est virulent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virulence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bacille pesteux aurait-il par hasard perdu sa virulence ? Il ne le semble pas, d’après certaines épidémies survenues dans l’Inde et d’après la cruelle épidémie, qui frappa la Mandchourie en 1910 et fit, en moins de trois mois, 65.000 victimes.
La virulence de cette humeur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivrulence
- virluence
- virrulence
- viruelnce
- virulecne
- virulencce
- virulenec
- virulennce
- virullence
- virulnece
- viurlence
- vriulence
- vvirulence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of virulence - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).