vassal
\va.sal\
The verdict
“vassal” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,408
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dépendant d’un seigneur, d'un suzerain, d’un souverain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vassal · vassal · French
vassal · rank #23,408 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,408
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH utilitaires
Nearest frequency peer: utilitaires (-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 « vassal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ulm
Ulm
76,596 corpus weight
- UTC
UTC
76,595 corpus weight
- utilitaires
utilitaires
76,594 corpus weight
- vassal
vassal
76,593 corpus weight
- vautours
vautours
76,592 corpus weight
- veil
veil
76,591 corpus weight
What this shows « vassal » 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 | vassal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.sal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vassal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vassal (IPA \va.sal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,408 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vassal, with forms such as "avssal", "vasal", and "vasasl". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "visual", "vassaux", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vassal, spelled V-A-S-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est dépendant d’un seigneur, d'un suzerain, d’un souverain.
- 2Qui est soumis à une puissance, subordonné, tributaire, ancillaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vassal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon lui, la principauté de Cochin était tributaire, vassale du royaume de Mysore ; en conséquence aucune portion du territoire n'en pouvait être légalement aliénée, sans le consentement du souverain de ce dernier pays.
À l’égard des deux autres sources de divergence, nous dirons que nous avons compris, dans l’Asie russe, tous les peuples vassaux, tributaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avssal
- vasal
- vasasl
- vassall
- vassla
- vsasal
- vvassal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vassal - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).