vapes
\vap\
The verdict
“vapes” is uncommon French (frequency #70,303 among 148,117 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,303
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de vape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vapes · vapes · French
vapes · rank #70,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,303
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 148,117
- PHOTO-FINISH vanadium
Nearest frequency peer: vanadium (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vapes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- valiant
valiant
29,701 corpus weight
- valium
valium
29,700 corpus weight
- vanadium
vanadium
29,699 corpus weight
- vapes
vapes
29,698 corpus weight
- velue
velue
29,697 corpus weight
- Ventadour
Ventadour
29,696 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vapes” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vapes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vap\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vapes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vapes is uncommon French at frequency #70,303 among 148,117 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vape.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vapes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vapes, spelled V-A-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vapes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dernière version du projet - vue par Euronews et encore susceptible d'être modifiée - cherche à débarrasser les espaces publics de tous les aérosols, et pas seulement de la fumée de cigarette, reflétant les préoccupations croissantes concernant les risques pour la santé posés par les nouveaux produits du tabac tels que les vapes.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vapes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.