vintage

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for vintage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for vintage, with forms such as "ivntage", "vinatge", and "vinntage". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "visage", "voltage", "village", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is vintage, spelled V-I-N-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.