vanne
\van\
The verdict
“vanne” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,487
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Panneau de fermeture fixe et étanche servant à régler le débit d’un fluide liquide, gazeux ou pulvérulent dans une canalisation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vanne · vanne · French
vanne · rank #13,487 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,487
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH validation
Nearest frequency peer: validation (-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 « vanne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- too
too
86,517 corpus weight
- transcripti…
transcription
86,516 corpus weight
- validation
validation
86,515 corpus weight
- vanne
vanne
86,514 corpus weight
- ventilation
ventilation
86,513 corpus weight
- viole
viole
86,512 corpus weight
What this shows « vanne » 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 | vanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \van\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vanne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around vanne (IPA \van\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,487 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for vanne, with forms such as "avnne", "vane", and "vanen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vase", "vans", "vine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vanne, spelled V-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Panneau de fermeture fixe et étanche servant à régler le débit d’un fluide liquide, gazeux ou pulvérulent dans une canalisation.
- 2Sorte de barrière étanche et mobile qui se hausse ou se baisse pour laisser passer l’eau ou la retenir dans un canal.
- 3Partie liquide des matières fécales.
- 4Ce qui retient.
- 5Grande plume de l’aile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut lever la vanne pour faire tourner le moulin.
Abaisser la vanne. Réparer les vannes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avnne
- vane
- vanen
- vnane
- vvanne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vanne - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vanne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).