vedettes
\və.dɛt\
The verdict
“vedettes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,033
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vedette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vedettes · vedettes · French
vedettes · rank #16,033 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH trousse
Nearest frequency peer: trousse (-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 « vedettes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tranchant
tranchant
83,971 corpus weight
- tronçon
tronçon
83,970 corpus weight
- trousse
trousse
83,969 corpus weight
- vedettes
vedettes
83,968 corpus weight
- vertige
vertige
83,967 corpus weight
- vieillard
vieillard
83,966 corpus weight
What this shows « vedettes » 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 | vedettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \və.dɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vedettes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around vedettes (IPA \və.dɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,033 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de vedette.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vedettes, with forms such as "evdettes", "vdeettes", and "veddettes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Vedette", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vedettes, spelled V-E-D-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vedette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vedettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des caprices de pin-up, des croqueuses de diamants qui se déhanchent pour le milliardaire du jour, des vedettes américaines en villégiature à Cinecittà qui veulent en montrer aux jeunes Romains, des gigolos qui se lancent dans des kazatchoks pour impressionner la cliente, oui.' — (Clément Ghys, Vadim, le plaisir sans remords, 2017)
Ses vêtements étaient d’un gris semblable au plumage de la chouette, couleur que les Chouans avaient, comme on sait, adoptée pour désorienter l’œil et la carabine des vedettes quand, au clair de la lune ou dans l’obscurité, ils se rangeaient contre un vieux mur ou s’aplatissaient dans un fossé comme un monceau de poussière que le vent y aurait charriée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evdettes
- vdeettes
- veddettes
- vedetes
- vedetets
- vedettess
- vedettse
- vedtetes
- veedttes
- vvedettes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vedettes - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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