Vosges
/voʊʒ/
"vosges" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Vosges” is uncommon English (frequency #71,209 among 7,391 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,209
- frequency rank, English
- 7,391
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A mountain range in eastern France.
| 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) |
Where “Vosges” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Vosges is uncommon English at frequency #71,209 among 7,391 “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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Using “Vosges”
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- The one correct English spelling is V-O-S-G-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.