végétarien
\ve.ʒe.ta.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“végétarien” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,311
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pratique le végétarisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vegetarien · végétarien · French
végétarien · rank #17,311 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,311
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH volvo
Nearest frequency peer: volvo (-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 « végétarien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- virginité
virginité
82,694 corpus weight
- virgule
virgule
82,693 corpus weight
- vivra
vivra
82,692 corpus weight
- volvo
volvo
82,691 corpus weight
- végétarien
végétarien
82,690 corpus weight
- yorkais
yorkais
82,687 corpus weight
What this shows « végétarien » 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 | végétarien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.ʒe.ta.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « végétarien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around végétarien (IPA \ve.ʒe.ta.ʁjɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,311 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for végétarien, with forms such as "vegetarien", "vgéétarien", and "vvégétarien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "végétation", "végétariens", "végétarienne", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is végétarien, spelled V-É-G-É-T-A-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui pratique le végétarisme.
- 2Qui concerne le végétarisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how végétarien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des insectes végétariens, tels que les Melonlonthiens n'ont pas de trace de lipase, alors que les Dytiques, les Carabes, ont une diastase lipasique très abondante.
Il est farouchement végétarien. Il regarde avec horreur le biftèque qui se trouve dans mon assiette et me dit : « Vous mangez des plaies. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- vegetarien
- vgéétarien
- vvégétarien
- véggétarien
- végtéarien
- végéatrien
- végétairen
- végétarein
- végétarienn
- végétarine
- végétarrien
- végétraien
- végéttarien
- véégtarien
- évgétarien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of végétarien - 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 "végétarien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).