Vasseur
\va.sœʁ\
The verdict
“Vasseur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,854
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vasseur · Vasseur · French
Vasseur · rank #30,854 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,854
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vance
Nearest frequency peer: Vance (-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 « Vasseur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- usent
usent
69,150 corpus weight
- usée
usée
69,149 corpus weight
- Vance
Vance
69,148 corpus weight
- Vasseur
Vasseur
69,147 corpus weight
- velléités
velléités
69,146 corpus weight
- Vence
Vence
69,145 corpus weight
What this shows « Vasseur » 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 | Vasseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \va.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Vasseur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Vasseur (IPA \va.sœʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,854 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vasseur, with forms such as "avsseur", "vasesur", and "vaseur". 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. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "viseur", "visser", "valeur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Vasseur, spelled V-A-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vasseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le plus important, pour nous, est de mettre Ferrari devant », a lancé le nouveau patron de la Scuderia, le Français Frédéric Vasseur, arrivé d’Alfa Romeo après le départ de Mattia Binotto en novembre.
Laëtitia Vasseur, déléguée générale et cofondatrice de HOP, répond à nos questions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avsseur
- vasesur
- vaseur
- vasseru
- vasseurr
- vassuer
- vsaseur
- vvasseur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vasseur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Vasseur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).