vacant
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,598
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
vacant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas occupé ou qui est à remplir, en parlant des maisons, lieux et places qui ne sont pas occupés. Pronounced \va.kɑ̃\. Often confused with vivant and venant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \va.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vacant is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.kɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,598 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for vacant, with forms such as "avcant", "vaacnt", and "vacannt". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "vivant", "venant", "voyant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is vacant, spelled V-A-C-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas occupé ou qui est à remplir, en parlant des maisons, lieux et places qui ne sont pas occupés.
- 2Emplois, places, ou dignités qui ne sont pas occupés.
- 3En termes de jurisprudence, succession que personne n’a réclamée lorsqu’elle a été ouverte, ou à laquelle on a renoncé.
- 4Curateur établi pour la régie et conservation des biens qui n’ont point de propriétaire certain.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avcant,vaacnt,vacannt,vacantt,vacatn,vaccant,vacnat,vcaant,vvacant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vacant
Misspelling Variants of "vacant"
Frequency rank: #20,598 in French
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