végétal
\ve.ʒe.tal\
The verdict
“végétal” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,088. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,088
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à ce qui pousse, à la végétation, aux plantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vegetal · végétal · French
végétal · rank #13,088 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,088
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vincennes
Nearest frequency peer: Vincennes (-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 « végétal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vaudrait
vaudrait
86,916 corpus weight
- vibrations
vibrations
86,915 corpus weight
- Vincennes
Vincennes
86,914 corpus weight
- végétal
végétal
86,913 corpus weight
- végétales
végétales
86,912 corpus weight
- XXX
XXX
86,911 corpus weight
What this shows « végétal » 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 | végétal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.ʒe.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « végétal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around végétal (IPA \ve.ʒe.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,088 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for végétal, with forms such as "vegetal", "vgéétal", and "vvégétal". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "végétaux", "végétale", "végétales", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 végétal, spelled V-É-G-É-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à ce qui pousse, à la végétation, aux plantes.
- 2Fabriqué sans produits animaux et destiné à l’alimentation végan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how végétal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on sème une plante pour l’enterrer, on doit se souvenir que le but n’est pas la production granifère, mais la production de la masse la plus considérable possible de matière végétale.
On verse sur le tas ou dans le composteur tous les déchets végétaux du jardin en évitant le branchage d'un trop gros diamètre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- vegetal
- vgéétal
- vvégétal
- véggétal
- végtéal
- végéatl
- végétall
- végétla
- végéttal
- véégtal
- évgétal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of végétal - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).