vaccin
\vak.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“vaccin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,634. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,634
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute substance inoculée à un individu pour l’immuniser contre la maladie qui a produit cette substance (vaccin préventif) ou pour lutter contre la maladie (vaccin thérapeutique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaccin · vaccin · French
vaccin · rank #7,634 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,634
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH touchent
Nearest frequency peer: touchent (-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 « vaccin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- survécu
survécu
92,370 corpus weight
- techniqueme…
techniquement
92,369 corpus weight
- touchent
touchent
92,368 corpus weight
- vaccin
vaccin
92,367 corpus weight
- valence
valence
92,366 corpus weight
- vendue
vendue
92,365 corpus weight
What this shows « vaccin » 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 | vaccin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vak.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaccin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vaccin (IPA \vak.sɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,634 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaccin, with forms such as "avccin", "vaccinn", and "vaccni". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "vain", "vagin", "vachon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vaccin, spelled V-A-C-C-I-N.
Definition
- 1Toute substance inoculée à un individu pour l’immuniser contre la maladie qui a produit cette substance (vaccin préventif) ou pour lutter contre la maladie (vaccin thérapeutique).
- 2L’inoculation elle-même, la vaccination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaccin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vaccins sont plus efficaces quand les animaux sont en bonne santé et bien nourris et qu’ils ne souffrent ni de vers ni d’autres maladies. Evitez de vacciner des animaux faibles ou affamés.
Les vaccins « ciblent le sous-variant d’Omicron BA.I en plus de la souche originale » du coronavirus, a déclaré dans un communiqué l’Agence européenne des médicaments (EMA), basée à Amsterdam.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avccin
- vaccinn
- vaccni
- vacicn
- vacin
- vcacin
- vvaccin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaccin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).