vaut
\vo\
The verdict
“vaut” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,014. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,014
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de valoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaut · vaut · French
vaut · rank #1,014 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,014
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH table
Nearest frequency peer: table (-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 « vaut »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- relations
relations
98,990 corpus weight
- table
table
98,988 corpus weight
- vaut
vaut
98,987 corpus weight
- édition
édition
98,986 corpus weight
- élections
élections
98,985 corpus weight
- analyse
analyse
98,984 corpus weight
What this shows « vaut » 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 | vaut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vaut »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around vaut (IPA \vo\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,014 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de valoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaut, with forms such as "avut", "vatu", and "vautt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "VT", "vue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vaut, spelled V-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de valoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vaut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut dire qu’on y aura mis le temps, mais mieux vaut très tard qu’absolument jamais, comme on dit quand on est catastrophiquement en retard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avut
- vatu
- vautt
- vuat
- vvaut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaut - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vaut", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).