vaniteux
\va.ni.tø\
The verdict
“vaniteux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,937
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a beaucoup de vanité, de désir de paraître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaniteux · vaniteux · French
vaniteux · rank #45,937 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,937
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaccinale
Nearest frequency peer: vaccinale (-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 « vaniteux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- upgrade
upgrade
54,067 corpus weight
- vaccinale
vaccinale
54,065 corpus weight
- vaniteux
vaniteux
54,064 corpus weight
- vaudoise
vaudoise
54,063 corpus weight
- Vaughan
Vaughan
54,062 corpus weight
- velu
velu
54,061 corpus weight
What this shows « vaniteux » 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 | vaniteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.ni.tø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaniteux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vaniteux (IPA \va.ni.tø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,937 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaniteux, with forms such as "avniteux", "vainteux", and "vanietux". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "venimeux", "vanité", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vaniteux, spelled V-A-N-I-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a beaucoup de vanité, de désir de paraître.
- 2Qui indique de la vanité, qui est inspiré par la vanité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaniteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que, pour elle, Bertrand était un froggie vaniteux, ultraséduisant et chauvin.
Rapace et vaniteux, retors et ombrageux, Clovis est le type même du voyou de haute volée, qui jalonnera toute sa carrière d’assassinats commandités, dans le plus pur style mafiosique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avniteux
- vainteux
- vanietux
- vaniteuxx
- vanitexu
- vanitteux
- vanituex
- vanniteux
- vantieux
- vnaiteux
- vvaniteux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaniteux - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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