vacants
\va.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“vacants” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,310. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,310
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de vacant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vacants · vacants · French
vacants · rank #20,310 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,310
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH ustensiles
Nearest frequency peer: ustensiles (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « vacants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Uno
Uno
79,694 corpus weight
- usant
usant
79,693 corpus weight
- ustensiles
ustensiles
79,692 corpus weight
- vacants
vacants
79,691 corpus weight
- verrou
verrou
79,690 corpus weight
- verticales
verticales
79,689 corpus weight
What this shows « vacants » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | vacants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vacants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vacants (IPA \va.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,310 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de vacant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vacants, with forms such as "avcants", "vaacnts", and "vacannts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "valant", "vivants", "votants", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vacants, spelled V-A-C-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de vacant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vacants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, face à l’ampleur de ces projets, Paris-centre n’est aujourd’hui que la fraction d’un espace urbanisé dans la discontinuité, laissant dans ses franges, ici et là, des interstices vacants, des espaces en attente, inorganisés ou « carrefourisés », « rond-pointisés ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avcants
- vaacnts
- vacannts
- vacanst
- vacantss
- vacantts
- vacatns
- vaccants
- vacnats
- vcaants
- vvacants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vacants - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).