vache
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,303
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vache is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bovidé domestique ruminant, femelle du taureau. Pronounced \vaʃ\. It ranks #5,303 in French word frequency. Often confused with vae and vice.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vaʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vache is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vaʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,303 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for vache, with forms such as "avche", "vacche", and "vaceh". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vae", "vice", "vase", 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 vache, spelled V-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bovidé domestique ruminant, femelle du taureau.
- 2Viande de cet animal, plus communément appelé bœuf.
- 3Cuir de cet animal, plus communément appelé vachette.
- 4Cuir de cet animal, plus communément appelé vachette.
- 5Femme bien en chair, à forte poitrine.
- 6Femme facile.
- 7Personne sans courage, molle, avachie, aussi dit vachard.
- 8Personne paresseuse.
- 9Brute, personne très méchante, salaud.
- 10Policier.
- 11Mot intensif.
- 12Courte pièce de corde utilisé pour s’attacher en falaise.
- 13Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée passante, avec des pis et la queue placée le long du flanc contrairement au taureau qui l’a au-dessus du dos et du bœuf qui l’a pendante ou entre les pattes. À rapprocher de bison, bœuf, buffle et taureau.
- 14Nom local d’un objet punitif quelconque, également nommé « le symbole », porté en pendentif par les écoliers bretons qui parlaient la langue bretonne à l’école, mis en place par le ministre de l’instruction français Anatole de Monzie en 1925 dans le but d’éradiquer cette langue et de créer une unité linguistique française.
- 15Femelle de l’orignal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avche,vacche,vaceh,vachhe,vahce,vcahe,vvache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "vache"
Frequency rank: #5,303 in French
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