vintage
/ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/
"vintage" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vintage” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #5,379 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,379
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
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 | vintage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vintage” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for vintage is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,379 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vintage, with forms such as "ivntage", "vinatge", and "vinntage". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "visage", "voltage", "village", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of… The correct English form is vintage, spelled V-I-N-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
- 2Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
- 3The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
- 4The year or place in which something is produced.
Etymology
From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivntage,vinatge,vinntage,vintaeg,vintagge,vintgae,vinttage,vitnage,vnitage,vvintage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vintage - 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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Using “vintage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-I-N-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “visage” - see the side-by-side comparison. vintage vs visage
- 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.