vagabond
\va.ɡa.bɔ̃\
The verdict
“vagabond” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,425
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui erre çà et là.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vagabond · vagabond · French
vagabond · rank #24,425 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,425
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaine
Nearest frequency peer: vaine (+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 « vagabond »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- témoignant
témoignant
75,580 corpus weight
- Ulrich
Ulrich
75,579 corpus weight
- universalité
universalité
75,578 corpus weight
- vagabond
vagabond
75,576 corpus weight
- vaine
vaine
75,575 corpus weight
- variabilité
variabilité
75,573 corpus weight
What this shows « vagabond » 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 | vagabond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.ɡa.bɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vagabond »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around vagabond (IPA \va.ɡa.bɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,425 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for vagabond, with forms such as "avgabond", "vaagbond", and "vagabbond". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vagabonds", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 vagabond, spelled V-A-G-A-B-O-N-D.
Definition
- 1Qui erre çà et là.
- 2Qualifie un courant électrique parasite, généralement de faible intensité, qui circule de façon non maîtrisée dans un milieu ou un matériau conducteur.
- 3Sans ordre, inconstant, changeant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vagabond appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que d’histoires, de légendes orientales durent voyager alors avec cette foule vagabonde !
… blancs de poussière, hâlés par le soleil, avec nos habits déchirés, nos chaussures usées, rapiécées, nous avions une belle allure vagabonde, insolente et pleine d’orgueil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avgabond
- vaagbond
- vagabbond
- vagabnod
- vagabodn
- vagabondd
- vagabonnd
- vagaobnd
- vagbaond
- vaggabond
- vgaabond
- vvagabond
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vagabond - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vagabond", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).