vla
\vlaː\
The verdict
“vla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,079) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,079
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crème dessert, lait gélifié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vla · vla · French
vla · rank #40,079 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,079
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH VK
Nearest frequency peer: VK (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vla »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vid
vid
59,925 corpus weight
- visionnaires
visionnaires
59,924 corpus weight
- VK
VK
59,923 corpus weight
- vla
vla
59,922 corpus weight
- vulve
vulve
59,921 corpus weight
- vénérer
vénérer
59,920 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vla » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | vla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vlaː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vla »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vla is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \vlaː\. Frequency #40,079 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Crème dessert, lait gélifié.".
vla has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "vo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vla, spelled V-L-A.
Definition
- 1Crème dessert, lait gélifié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vanille vla.
Chocolade vla.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).