vas
\va\
The verdict
“vas” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #593 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #593
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de aller.
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 | vas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vas” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vas is 3 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va\. Corpus data places it at rank #593 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vas, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vi", "vs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vas, spelled V-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de aller.
- 2Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de aller. — Note d’usage : Il s'agit d'une forme ancienne qui perdure.
- 3(Utilisé uniquement dans vas-y) Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de aller.
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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Using “vas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \va\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vu” - see the side-by-side comparison. vas vs vu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.