Vaucluse
\vo.klyz\
The verdict
“Vaucluse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,818
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Département du Sud-Est de la France de la région administrative Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, qui porte le numéro 84.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaucluse · Vaucluse · French
Vaucluse · rank #14,818 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,818
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 148,117
- PHOTO-FINISH tropicale
Nearest frequency peer: tropicale (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Vaucluse”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- traduits
traduits
85,186 corpus weight
- tropicale
tropicale
85,184 corpus weight
- Vaucluse
Vaucluse
85,183 corpus weight
- vestiaires
vestiaires
85,182 corpus weight
- viable
viable
85,181 corpus weight
- vieillir
vieillir
85,180 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Vaucluse” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vaucluse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vo.klyz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Vaucluse” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Vaucluse (IPA \vo.klyz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,818 among 148,117 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Département du Sud-Est de la France de la région administrative Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, qui porte le numéro 84.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vaucluse, with forms such as "avucluse", "vaculuse", and "vauccluse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Vaucluse, spelled V-A-U-C-L-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Département du Sud-Est de la France de la région administrative Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, qui porte le numéro 84.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avucluse
- vaculuse
- vauccluse
- vauclluse
- vauclsue
- vauclues
- vauclusse
- vauculse
- vaulcuse
- vuacluse
- vvaucluse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vaucluse - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Vaucluse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
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.