VR
\ve.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“VR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,036) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,036
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de véhicule récréatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vr · VR · French
VR · rank #16,036 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,036
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vieillard
Nearest frequency peer: vieillard (-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 « VR »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vedettes
vedettes
83,968 corpus weight
- vertige
vertige
83,967 corpus weight
- vieillard
vieillard
83,966 corpus weight
- VR
VR
83,965 corpus weight
- vulnérabili…
vulnérabilité
83,964 corpus weight
- yacht
yacht
83,963 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « VR » 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 | VR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #16,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « VR »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VR is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ve.ɛʁ\. Frequency #16,036 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de véhicule récréatif.".
VR doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "VW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is VR, spelled V-R.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de véhicule récréatif.
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.