végétation
\ve.ʒe.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“végétation” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,253
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de végéter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vegetation · végétation · French
végétation · rank #9,253 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,253
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vigne
Nearest frequency peer: vigne (-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 « végétation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- viendront
viendront
90,751 corpus weight
- vigilance
vigilance
90,750 corpus weight
- vigne
vigne
90,749 corpus weight
- végétation
végétation
90,748 corpus weight
- way
way
90,747 corpus weight
- écrasé
écrasé
90,746 corpus weight
What this shows « végétation » 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 | végétation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.ʒe.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « végétation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around végétation (IPA \ve.ʒe.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,253 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for végétation, with forms such as "vegetation", "vgéétation", and "vvégétation". 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, "vénération", "végétatif", "végétarien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is végétation, spelled V-É-G-É-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de végéter.
- 2Ensemble des arbres et des plantes.
- 3Nom donné à certaines lésions inflammatoires de la peau ou des muqueuses.
- 4Hypertrophie du tissu de l’amygdale pharyngée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how végétation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre grand botaniste Tournefort, se fondant principalement sur les observations qu’il avait faites dans la grotte d’Antiparos, et, comme l’a dit Fontenelle, transformant tout en ce qu’il aimait le mieux, avait admis la végétation des pierres.
Les savants s’occupèrent de tout dans une paix profonde, depuis la végétation anormale d’un ognon de jacinthe jusqu’aux courants électriques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- vegetation
- vgéétation
- vvégétation
- véggétation
- végtéation
- végéattion
- végétaiton
- végétatino
- végétationn
- végétatoin
- végétattion
- végéttaion
- végéttation
- véégtation
- évgétation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of végétation - 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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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).