vaudou
\vo.du\
The verdict
“vaudou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,654. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,654
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religion animiste originaire de l’ancien royaume du Dahomey, répandue au Bénin et au Togo, aux Antilles et en Amérique latine, principalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaudou · vaudou · French
vaudou · rank #27,654 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,654
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vercors
Nearest frequency peer: Vercors (+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 « vaudou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- urgents
urgents
72,350 corpus weight
- valorisant
valorisant
72,349 corpus weight
- vaudou
vaudou
72,347 corpus weight
- Vercors
Vercors
72,346 corpus weight
- vestimentai…
vestimentaires
72,345 corpus weight
- vigoureuse
vigoureuse
72,344 corpus weight
What this shows « vaudou » 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 | vaudou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vo.du\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaudou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vaudou (IPA \vo.du\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,654 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaudou, with forms such as "avudou", "vaduou", and "vauddou". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "vaudra", "vautour", "Vaud", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vaudou, spelled V-A-U-D-O-U.
Definition
- 1Religion animiste originaire de l’ancien royaume du Dahomey, répandue au Bénin et au Togo, aux Antilles et en Amérique latine, principalement.
- 2Dieu de cette religion.
- 3Adepte de ce culte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaudou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Haïti, le vaudou mélange vaudou d’Afrique de l’Ouest et folklore religieux chrétien.
Un vaudou trônant en divinité principale dans un sanctuaire n’est plus qu’une divinité secondaire dans le temple voisin.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avudou
- vaduou
- vauddou
- vauduo
- vauodu
- vuadou
- vvaudou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaudou - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).