vaciller
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,089
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
vaciller is aFrenchverb. It means: Chanceler ; trembler ; n’être pas bien ferme. Pronounced \va.si.je\. Often confused with vaille and veiller.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaciller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.si.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vaciller is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.si.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,089 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for vaciller, with forms such as "avciller", "vacciller", and "vacilelr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "vaille", "veiller", "vanille", 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 vaciller, spelled V-A-C-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chanceler ; trembler ; n’être pas bien ferme.
- 2Être incertain ou irrésolu ; varier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avciller,vacciller,vacilelr,vaciler,vacillerr,vacillre,vacliler,vaicller,vcailler,vvaciller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vaciller
Misspelling Variants of "vaciller"
Frequency rank: #47,089 in French
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