virulent
\vi.ʁy.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“virulent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,424
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie les maladies produites par un virus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virulent · virulent · French
virulent · rank #30,424 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vestibule
Nearest frequency peer: vestibule (-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 « virulent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Verdon
Verdon
69,580 corpus weight
- verraient
verraient
69,579 corpus weight
- vestibule
vestibule
69,578 corpus weight
- virulent
virulent
69,577 corpus weight
- viticulteurs
viticulteurs
69,576 corpus weight
- vivront
vivront
69,575 corpus weight
What this shows « virulent » 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 | virulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʁy.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « virulent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around virulent (IPA \vi.ʁy.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,424 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for virulent, with forms such as "ivrulent", "virluent", and "virrulent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "virulente", "virulents", "virulentes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is virulent, spelled V-I-R-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qualifie les maladies produites par un virus.
- 2Qualifie tout ce qui porte et transmet les virus.
- 3Qualifie des discours, des écrits où l’on attaque avec violence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virulent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moreta lui raconta la visite de Capiam, ses craintes pour la santé de tout le continent, car via la zoonose, une deuxième épidémie, plus virulente que la première, pouvait se propager partout, et par conséquent une vaccination massive était essentielle.
Ce sont les excrétats virulents, en particulier les urines aérosolisées qui assurent la contamination des animaux et de l'homme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivrulent
- virluent
- virrulent
- viruelnt
- virulennt
- virulentt
- viruletn
- virullent
- virulnet
- viurlent
- vriulent
- vvirulent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of virulent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).