vaudois
\vo.dwa\
The verdict
“vaudois” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,011
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parler (dialecte franco-provençal) du canton de Vaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaudois · vaudois · French
vaudois · rank #28,011 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,011
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH validés
Nearest frequency peer: validés (-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 « vaudois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Valencia
Valencia
71,992 corpus weight
- validés
validés
71,991 corpus weight
- vaudois
vaudois
71,990 corpus weight
- verges
verges
71,989 corpus weight
- Verlaine
Verlaine
71,988 corpus weight
- verrouiller
verrouiller
71,987 corpus weight
What this shows « vaudois » 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 | vaudois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vo.dwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaudois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around vaudois (IPA \vo.dwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,011 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Parler (dialecte franco-provençal) du canton de Vaud.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaudois, with forms such as "avudois", "vaduois", and "vauddois". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "vaudou", "vaudoise", "Valois", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vaudois, spelled V-A-U-D-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Parler (dialecte franco-provençal) du canton de Vaud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaudois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je faisais souvent une halte à la terrasse d’un café proche de la tour Bel-Air et j’écoutais les conversations des clients. Leur manière même de parler le français aggravait en moi ce sentiment général d’irréalité. Ils avaient des inflexions étranges, et le français dans leur bouche devenait ce langage qui filtre à travers les haut-parleurs des aéroports…
Il faut noter qu’une part non négligeable de ces vocables est passée en français régional et identifie aujourd’hui le francoprovençal ou plus sûrement, les dialectes de cette région linguistique tels que le stéphanois, le vaudois, le dauphinois, le lyonnais ou le savoyard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avudois
- vaduois
- vauddois
- vaudios
- vaudoiss
- vaudosi
- vauodis
- vuadois
- vvaudois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaudois - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).