vehement
/ˈviː.ə.mənt/
"vehement" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vehement” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #46,251 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #46,251
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.
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 | vehement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈviː.ə.mənt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vehement” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for vehement is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈviː.ə.mənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #46,251 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for vehement, with forms such as "evhement", "veehment", and "veheemnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vehemently", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French vehement (modern French véhément; compare Italian veemente, Portuguese veemente, Spanish vehemente); or from Latin vehemēns (“vehement; very eager; ardent, furious, impetuous; emphatic”), probably from vē- (“lacking, too little”)… The correct English form is vehement, spelled V-E-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French vehement (modern French véhément; compare Italian veemente, Portuguese veemente, Spanish vehemente); or from Latin vehemēns (“vehement; very eager; ardent, furious, impetuous; emphatic”), probably from vē- (“lacking, too little”) + mēns (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evhement,veehment,veheemnt,vehemennt,vehementt,vehemetn,vehemment,vehemnet,vehhement,vehmeent,vheement,vvehement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vehement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “vehement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-E-H-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈviː.ə.mənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vehemently” - see the side-by-side comparison. vehement vs vehemently
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.