vacarme
\va.kaʁm\
The verdict
“vacarme” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,586
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tumulte ; grand bruit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vacarme · vacarme · French
vacarme · rank #29,586 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,586
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH universelleme…
Nearest frequency peer: universellement (-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 « vacarme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- téléviseurs
téléviseurs
70,418 corpus weight
- ténébreux
ténébreux
70,417 corpus weight
- universelle…
universellement
70,416 corpus weight
- vacarme
vacarme
70,415 corpus weight
- vaines
vaines
70,414 corpus weight
- vergogne
vergogne
70,413 corpus weight
What this shows « vacarme » 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 | vacarme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.kaʁm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vacarme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around vacarme (IPA \va.kaʁm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,586 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tumulte ; grand bruit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vacarme, with forms such as "avcarme", "vaacrme", and "vacamre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vacance", "vacante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vacarme, spelled V-A-C-A-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Tumulte ; grand bruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vacarme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feu des fusils Mauser commença ; ce fut un vacarme épouvantable dans lequel on percevait le ronflement des obus à la lydite, le crépitement des fusils Metford, les éclats des mitrailleuses boers et les sifflements des Mauser.
Les matches se disputaient au milieu d'un grand vacarme produit par les cris des parieurs comme les parties de chistera en Espagne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avcarme
- vaacrme
- vacamre
- vacarem
- vacarmme
- vacarrme
- vaccarme
- vacrame
- vcaarme
- vvacarme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vacarme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).