vaisseau
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,107
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
vaisseau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vase, ustensile, de toute matière, destiné à contenir des liquides. Pronounced \vɛ.so\. It ranks #4,107 in French word frequency. Often confused with vaisseaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaisseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vaisseau is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,107 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for vaisseau, with forms such as "avisseau", "vaiseau", and "vaisesau". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vaisseaux", 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 vaisseau, spelled V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vase, ustensile, de toute matière, destiné à contenir des liquides.
- 2Navire.
- 3Grand espace intérieur d'un bâtiment, le plus souvent voûté, de plan allongé et dont l'élévation correspond à plus d'un étage de l'édifice. Une nef d'église peut comporter un ou plusieurs vaisseaux. Par analogie, le bâtiment peut être comparé à un navire.
- 4Canal du sang ou de la lymphe.
- 5Élément creux, spécialisé et conducteur de la sève.
- 6Meuble représentant un trois-mâts (gros navire) dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté avec son gréement et ses voiles, de profil, la proue orientée à dextre. Il se blasonne comme le navire. À rapprocher de bateau, drakkar, flobard, gabarot, galère, navire et nef.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avisseau,vaiseau,vaisesau,vaissaeu,vaisseua,vasiseau,viasseau,vvaisseau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vaisseau
Misspelling Variants of "vaisseau"
Frequency rank: #4,107 in French
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