vid
/vɪd/
"vid" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,267) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,267
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of video.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vid · vid · English
vid · rank #17,267 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,267
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH validate
Nearest frequency peer: validate (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “vid”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- turnaround
turnaround
82,737 corpus weight
- uterus
uterus
82,736 corpus weight
- validate
validate
82,735 corpus weight
- vid
vid
82,734 corpus weight
- vocalist
vocalist
82,733 corpus weight
- VW
VW
82,732 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “vid” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | vid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɪd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “vid”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vid is neighbouring look-alikes ("VR", "VP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /vɪd/. Frequency #17,267 among 969 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vid in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VR", "VP", "VW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping. The correct English form is vid, spelled V-I-D.
Definition
- 1Clipping of video.
- 2Clipping of videotape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Check out the cool new vids on YouTube!
Man, I was so pissed off at you. I got blind drunk that night, and it was a few days later before I got it together enough to check the news vids and saw that almost all those mercs had gotten killed by Archangel.
Etymology
Clipping.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).