vu
\vy\
The verdict
“vu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #156) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #156
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui est exposé sur les productions respectives, les pièces, les raisons qui sont énoncées avant le dispositif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vu · vu · French
vu · rank #156 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #156
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH toutes
Nearest frequency peer: toutes (-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 « vu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ici
ici
99,848 corpus weight
- Paris
Paris
99,847 corpus weight
- toutes
toutes
99,846 corpus weight
- vu
vu
99,845 corpus weight
- cas
cas
99,844 corpus weight
- chose
chose
99,843 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vu » 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 | vu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vy\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vu is neighbouring look-alikes ("VW", "vue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \vy\. Frequency #156 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
vu has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VW", "vue", "vus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 vu, spelled V-U.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est exposé sur les productions respectives, les pièces, les raisons qui sont énoncées avant le dispositif.
- 2Examen des pièces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vu d’un arrêt, le vu d’une sentence.
Sur le vu des pièces, nous décidons.
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.