vegan
\ve.ɡan\
The verdict
“vegan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,576
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de végan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vegan · vegan · French
vegan · rank #14,576 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,576
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Villiers
Nearest frequency peer: Villiers (+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 « vegan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tournés
tournés
85,429 corpus weight
- trottoirs
trottoirs
85,427 corpus weight
- vegan
vegan
85,425 corpus weight
- Villiers
Villiers
85,424 corpus weight
- vita
vita
85,423 corpus weight
- voirie
voirie
85,422 corpus weight
What this shows « vegan » 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 | vegan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.ɡan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vegan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vegan (IPA \ve.ɡan\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,576 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de végan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vegan, with forms such as "evgan", "veagn", and "vegann". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "vera", "vian", "vern", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vegan, spelled V-E-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de végan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vegan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Titre] Recettes vegan : 50 petits plats faciles à réaliser, gourmands et équilibrés !
Un festival vegan, initialement prévu le 8 septembre, a été annulé vendredi 25 août par la mairie de Calais en raison de menaces proférées par « des chasseurs et des éleveurs » et de risque de débordement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evgan
- veagn
- vegann
- veggan
- vegna
- vgean
- vvegan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vegan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "vegan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).