vanille
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,934
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
vanille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante grimpante sempervirente tropicale cultivée pour ses fruits aromatiques de nom scientifique Vanilla planifolia (→ voir vanillier à feuilles planes et vanille Bourbon). Pronounced \va.nij\. Often confused with ville and veille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vanille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.nij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vanille is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.nij\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,934 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 vanille, with forms such as "avnille", "vainlle", and "vanile". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ville", "veille", "vanité", 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 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 vanille, spelled V-A-N-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante grimpante sempervirente tropicale cultivée pour ses fruits aromatiques de nom scientifique Vanilla planifolia (→ voir vanillier à feuilles planes et vanille Bourbon).
- 2Fruit de l’orchidée Vanilla planifolia appelée communément vanillier, cette sorte de capsule a un parfum et une saveur aromatique.
- 3Arôme naturel extrait de ce fruit, ou synthétique (la vanilline fut le premier arôme synthétisé artificiellement), utilisé en pâtisserie et en confiserie.
- 4Tresse de cheveux à deux brins, qui peut faire penser à une gousse de vanille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avnille,vainlle,vanile,vanilel,vanlile,vannille,vnaille,vvanille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "vanille"
Frequency rank: #13,934 in French
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