vape
\vap\
The verdict
“vape” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,087
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situation louche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vape · vape · French
vape · rank #39,087 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,087
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vantait
Nearest frequency peer: vantait (-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 « vape »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vae
vae
60,917 corpus weight
- Vallier
Vallier
60,916 corpus weight
- vantait
vantait
60,915 corpus weight
- vape
vape
60,914 corpus weight
- varenne
varenne
60,913 corpus weight
- VDM
VDM
60,912 corpus weight
What this shows « vape » 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 | vape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vap\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vape »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around vape (IPA \vap\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,087 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for vape, with forms such as "avpe", "vaep", and "vappe". 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, "VP", "vé", "vie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vape, spelled V-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Situation louche.
- 2Hébétude, somnolence ou perte de connaissance due à la fatigue, à un malaise, aux drogues, etc.
- 3Action de vapoter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vape appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils renâclaient presque toujours au moment de douiller […] il leur passait une inquiétude […] ils sentaient malgré tout la vape… Que c’était un petit flouze qu’ils reverraient jamais.
Tomber dans les vapes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avpe
- vaep
- vappe
- vpae
- vvape
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vape - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "vape", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).