Vosges
/voʊʒ/
"vosges" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Vosges” is uncommon English (frequency #71,209 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,209
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mountain range in eastern France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vosges · Vosges · English
Vosges · rank #71,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,209
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vicomte
Nearest frequency peer: vicomte (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Vosges”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- usefull
usefull
28,802 corpus weight
- viciousness
viciousness
28,794 corpus weight
- vicomte
vicomte
28,793 corpus weight
- Vosges
Vosges
28,792 corpus weight
- Welwyn
Welwyn
28,786 corpus weight
- whippet
whippet
28,783 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Vosges” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vosges |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /voʊʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Vosges” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Vosges is uncommon English at frequency #71,209 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /voʊʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Vosges in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Vosges, from Latin Vosegus (in the manuscripts also Vogesus), probably from the name of a Celtic god, from Proto-Celtic *uɸo- (“sub-, under”) and *segos (“force, victory”) (compare Middle Irish seg (“strength”), Welsh hŷ (“bold, brave”), and the… The correct English form is Vosges, spelled V-O-S-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1A mountain range in eastern France.
- 2A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Épinal.
Etymology
From French Vosges, from Latin Vosegus (in the manuscripts also Vogesus), probably from the name of a Celtic god, from Proto-Celtic *uɸo- (“sub-, under”) and *segos (“force, victory”) (compare Middle Irish seg (“strength”), Welsh hŷ (“bold, brave”), and the place name Segovia).
This word in other languages
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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