vaches

\vaʃ\

/\vaʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“vaches” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,766
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vache.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vaches · vaches · French

vaches · rank #6,766 · 9 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,766
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH tweet

Nearest frequency peer: tweet (-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 « vaches »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « vaches » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

vaches vs vices
67% similar
vaches vs vases
67% similar
vaches vs vagues
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for vaches
PropertyValue
Headwordvaches
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vaʃ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,766
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaches »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).vachesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tweet » (#6,765), « vaincre » (#6,767), « trouvés » (#6,764). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vaches » est au #6,766. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around vaches (IPA \vaʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,766 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de vache.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaches, with forms such as "avches", "vacches", and "vacehs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "vices", "vases", "vagues", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vaches, spelled V-A-C-H-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de vache.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how vaches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Trois charrettes que tiraient des vaches accouplées au joug et qu’accompagnaient des hommes armés de fourches, plus une dizaine de Chiens bondissant et japillant de joie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • avches
  • vacches
  • vacehs
  • vachess
  • vachhes
  • vachse
  • vahces
  • vcahes
  • vvaches

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaches - 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.

avches2vacches1vacehs2vachess1vachhes1vachse2vahces2vcahes2
Edit distance from "vaches"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vaches"?
"vaches" is spelled V-A-C-H-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vaʃ\.
What does "vaches" mean?
As a noun, "vaches" means: Pluriel de vache.
What words are commonly confused with "vaches"?
"vaches" is commonly confused with "vices", "vases", "vagues". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vaches"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vaches" is \vaʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vaches" come from?
"vaches" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vaches", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

valent#6,768rédigé#6,751auriez#6,782restez#6,747

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

réelles9 variantsrendra9 variantsbruits9 variantscaution9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list