VDM
\ve.de.ɛm\
The verdict
“VDM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,089) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,089
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Existence de peu de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vdm · VDM · French
VDM · rank #39,089 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,089
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH varenne
Nearest frequency peer: varenne (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « VDM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vantait
vantait
60,915 corpus weight
- vape
vape
60,914 corpus weight
- varenne
varenne
60,913 corpus weight
- VDM
VDM
60,912 corpus weight
- vendémiaire
vendémiaire
60,911 corpus weight
- Ventoux
Ventoux
60,910 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « VDM » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | VDM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.de.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « VDM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VDM is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ve.de.ɛm\. Frequency #39,089 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Existence de peu de valeur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for VDM in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vi", "vs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is VDM, spelled V-D-M.
Definition
- 1Existence de peu de valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how VDM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sommeliers ont aussi parfois une VDM !
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).