Vedette
\və.dɛt\
The verdict
“Vedette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,129
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à une série de voitures françaises de haut de gamme produites par Ford France, puis par Simca, de 1948 à 1961.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vedette · Vedette · French
Vedette · rank #7,129 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,129
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vatican
Nearest frequency peer: Vatican (-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 « Vedette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Valérie
Valérie
92,875 corpus weight
- variables
variables
92,874 corpus weight
- Vatican
Vatican
92,873 corpus weight
- Vedette
Vedette
92,872 corpus weight
- vegas
vegas
92,871 corpus weight
- Vietnam
Vietnam
92,870 corpus weight
What this shows « Vedette » 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 | Vedette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \və.dɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Vedette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Vedette (IPA \və.dɛt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,129 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom donné à une série de voitures françaises de haut de gamme produites par Ford France, puis par Simca, de 1948 à 1961.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vedette, with forms such as "evdette", "vdeette", and "veddette". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Vénétie", "vedettes", "vendetta", 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 Vedette, spelled V-E-D-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à une série de voitures françaises de haut de gamme produites par Ford France, puis par Simca, de 1948 à 1961.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vedette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le commissaire Laviolette a débarqué une fois de plus dans les rues d’Aubagne au volant de sa Vedette bordeaux pour résoudre une sombre histoire tout droit sortie de l’imagination de Pierre Magnan, auteur de polar dignois.
En 1954, Ford SAF travaille sur le nouveau modèle lorsque Henry Ford II s'aperçoit que la filiale française n’est pas rentable. Elle est alors cédée et la nouvelle Vedette sera alors une Simca.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evdette
- vdeette
- veddette
- vedete
- vedetet
- vedtete
- veedtte
- vvedette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vedette - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).