vanité

\va.ni.te\

/\va.ni.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“vanité” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,884
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est vain, futile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vanite · vanité · French

vanité · rank #20,884 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,884
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vaille

Nearest frequency peer: vaille (-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 « vanité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « vanité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

vanité vs vite
50% similar
vanité vs vente
50% similar
vanité vs vaste
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for vanité
PropertyValue
Headwordvanité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\va.ni.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,884
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vanité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).vanitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vaille » (#20,883), « verbaux » (#20,885), « viaduc » (#20,886). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vanité » est au #20,884. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around vanité (IPA \va.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,884 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vanité, with forms such as "avnité", "vainté", and "vanite". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vite", "vente", "vaste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vanité, spelled V-A-N-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est vain, futile.
  2. 2
    Inutilité, inconsistance.
  3. 3
    Désir de se faire valoir, fatuité.
  4. 4
    Fierté excessive, amour-propre frivole.
  5. 5
    Peinture de genre signifiant le temps, la mort, l’instabilité des choses, à l’aide de composition d’objets périssables, tels que bougie, crâne, sablier, végétaux.
  6. 6
    Bijou, bague, orné d’une tête de mort.
  7. 7
    Mondanités, frivolités, futilités.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vanité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’abondante littérature idyllique des professeurs de rhétorique est évidem­ment une pure vanité.
  2. Mais les vanités de la douleur sont étrangères aux âmes fidèles.

Synonyms

fatuitéfiertéfrivolitéfutilité

Antonyms

modestie

This word in other languages

vanity(English)Eitelkeit(Deutsch)frivolidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • avnité
  • vainté
  • vanite
  • vanitté
  • vaniét
  • vannité
  • vantié
  • vnaité
  • vvanité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vanité - 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.

avnité2vainté2vanite1vanitté1vaniét2vannité1vantié2vnaité2
Edit distance from "vanité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vanité"?
"vanité" is spelled V-A-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \va.ni.te\.
What does "vanité" mean?
As a noun, "vanité" means: Caractère de ce qui est vain, futile.
What words are commonly confused with "vanité"?
"vanité" is commonly confused with "vite", "vente", "vaste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vanité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vanité" is \va.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vanité" come from?
"vanité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vanité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vaille#20,883viaduc#20,886twitch#20,881vigile#20,888

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

vieillit9 variantstweeté9 variantsécoulée9 variantstordre9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list