vendor
/ˈvɛn.də/
"vendor" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vendor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,836
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person or a company that vends or sells.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vendor · vendor · English
vendor · rank #9,836 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,836
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vatican
Nearest frequency peer: Vatican (-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 “vendor”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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trillion
90,168 corpus weight
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tucker
90,167 corpus weight
- Vatican
Vatican
90,166 corpus weight
- vendor
vendor
90,165 corpus weight
- Watts
Watts
90,164 corpus weight
- yr
yr
90,163 corpus weight
What this shows “vendor” 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 | vendor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛn.də/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “vendor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around vendor (IPA /ˈvɛn.də/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,836 among 969 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vendor, with forms such as "evndor", "vednor", and "venddor". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "venom", "veneer", "vector", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”)… The correct English form is vendor, spelled V-E-N-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1A person or a company that vends or sells.
- 2A vending machine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vendor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evndor
- vednor
- venddor
- vendorr
- vendro
- venndor
- venodr
- vnedor
- vvendor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vendor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).