vas
\va\
The verdict
“vas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #593) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #593
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vas · vas · French
vas · rank #593 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #593
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH six
Nearest frequency peer: six (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vas »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rencontre
rencontre
99,411 corpus weight
- résultats
résultats
99,410 corpus weight
- six
six
99,409 corpus weight
- vas
vas
99,408 corpus weight
- aurais
aurais
99,406 corpus weight
- blanc
blanc
99,405 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vas » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vas »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vas is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vi", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \va\. Frequency #593 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu vas décicatriser !
Mais où vas-je? Arrestons un peu, & considerons bien ce que je vas prendre, & ce que je vas donner. Je vas prendre le corps & le sang du Fils de Dieu, & luy même tout entier. […]. Je vas me presenter & me donner à luy; […].
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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