vainement
\vɛn.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“vainement” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,915
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En vain ; inutilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vainement · vainement · French
vainement · rank #26,915 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,915
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaincue
Nearest frequency peer: vaincue (-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 « vainement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- universels
universels
73,089 corpus weight
- Unsa
Unsa
73,088 corpus weight
- vaincue
vaincue
73,087 corpus weight
- vainement
vainement
73,086 corpus weight
- valant
valant
73,085 corpus weight
- valette
valette
73,084 corpus weight
What this shows « vainement » 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 | vainement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \vɛn.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vainement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around vainement (IPA \vɛn.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #26,915 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "En vain ; inutilement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for vainement, with forms such as "avinement", "vaienment", and "vaineemnt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "vivement", "virement", "vachement", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vainement, spelled V-A-I-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1En vain ; inutilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vainement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vainement avaient-ils stipulé qu'on ne pourrait les rembourser qu'en écus ; il n'en fallait pas moins qu'ils reçussent leur remboursement en assignats.
Mais il se multiplia vainement, il ne pouvait se montrer partout, et les ennemis délinquaient partout à la fois.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avinement
- vaienment
- vaineemnt
- vainemennt
- vainementt
- vainemetn
- vainemment
- vainemnet
- vainmeent
- vainnement
- vaniement
- vianement
- vvainement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vainement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).