vaseline
\va.zlin\
The verdict
“vaseline” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,071
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance blanche, onctueuse, extraite du pétrole, et qui constitue une sorte de pommade. C'est un hydrocarbure en C₂₅.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaseline · vaseline · French
vaseline · rank #40,071 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,071
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH valorisée
Nearest frequency peer: valorisée (-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 « vaseline »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- urbanistes
urbanistes
59,934 corpus weight
- utilisa
utilisa
59,933 corpus weight
- valorisée
valorisée
59,931 corpus weight
- vaseline
vaseline
59,930 corpus weight
- ventouse
ventouse
59,929 corpus weight
- veritas
veritas
59,928 corpus weight
What this shows « vaseline » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaseline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.zlin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaseline »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vaseline (IPA \va.zlin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,071 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Substance blanche, onctueuse, extraite du pétrole, et qui constitue une sorte de pommade. C'est un hydrocarbure en C₂₅.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaseline, with forms such as "avseline", "vaesline", and "vaseilne". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vaseline, spelled V-A-S-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Substance blanche, onctueuse, extraite du pétrole, et qui constitue une sorte de pommade. C'est un hydrocarbure en C₂₅.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaseline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vaseline ne rancit pas et se stérilise facilement par la chaleur.
La vaseline est la base la plus courante des pommades : on la rend plus adhésive en l'additionnant de lanoline […] qui absorbe plusieurs fois son poids d'eau.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avseline
- vaesline
- vaseilne
- vaselien
- vaselinne
- vaselline
- vaselnie
- vasleine
- vasseline
- vsaeline
- vvaseline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaseline - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).