vagrant
/ˈveɪɡɹənt/
"vagrant" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vagrant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,151
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vagrant · vagrant · English
vagrant · rank #39,151 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,151
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH unstructured
Nearest frequency peer: unstructured (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “vagrant”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- unrecogniza…
unrecognizable
60,854 corpus weight
- unscheduled
unscheduled
60,852 corpus weight
- unstructured
unstructured
60,851 corpus weight
- vagrant
vagrant
60,850 corpus weight
- Veracruz
Veracruz
60,849 corpus weight
- vidya
vidya
60,847 corpus weight
What this shows “vagrant” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | vagrant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈveɪɡɹənt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “vagrant”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vagrant (IPA /ˈveɪɡɹənt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,151 among 969 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vagrant, with forms such as "avgrant", "vagarnt", and "vaggrant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "variant", "vibrant", "valiant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant … The correct English form is vagrant, spelled V-A-G-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
- 2A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
- 3Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
- 4An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vagrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.
If it appear to the Juſtice by the confeſſion of the Vagrant, or by the Oath of one Witneſs, that he had no lawful Settlement ſince his Birth, and that he hath committed Acts of Vagrancy, or hath been a common Beggar, or Vagrant, for two Years laſt paſt, [...] then inſtead of puniſhing him, the Juſtice, or Juſtices, may bind him Apprentice for ſeven Years…
Etymology
From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vagārī, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander”). Old French walcrant is the present participle of vagrer, wacrer, walcrer (“to wander, wander about as a vagabond”) [and other forms], from Frankish *walkrōn (“to wander about”), the frequentative form of *walkōn (“to walk; to wander; to stomp, trample; to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing)”), from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about, wallow; to full”), *walkaną (“to turn, wind; to toss; to roll, roll about; to wend; to walk; to wander; to trample; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg-, *walk-, *welgʰ-, *welk-, *wolg- (“to turn, twist; to move”), ultimately from *welH- (“to turn; to wind”). The English word is cognate with Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Middle Dutch walken (“to knead; to full”), Old English wealcan (“to roll”), ġewealcan (“to go; to walk about”), Old High German walchan, walkan (“to move up and down; to press together; to full; to walk; to wander”), Old Norse valka (“to wander”). See further at walk.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avgrant
- vagarnt
- vaggrant
- vagrannt
- vagrantt
- vagratn
- vagrnat
- vagrrant
- vargant
- vgarant
- vvagrant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vagrant - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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