vendetta
\vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\
The verdict
“vendetta” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,395
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haine, hostilité qui existe dans le bassin méditerranéen et dans les Balkans entre deux familles, et qui cause souvent des meurtres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vendetta · vendetta · French
vendetta · rank #28,395 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,395
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vallaud
Nearest frequency peer: Vallaud (-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 « vendetta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- univ
univ
71,610 corpus weight
- ux
ux
71,609 corpus weight
- V1
V1
71,608 corpus weight
- Vallaud
Vallaud
71,607 corpus weight
- vendetta
vendetta
71,606 corpus weight
- verbalement
verbalement
71,604 corpus weight
What this shows « vendetta » 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 | vendetta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vendetta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around vendetta (IPA \vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,395 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vendetta, with forms such as "evndetta", "vednetta", and "venddetta". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Vedette", "vendent", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vendetta, spelled V-E-N-D-E-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1Haine, hostilité qui existe dans le bassin méditerranéen et dans les Balkans entre deux familles, et qui cause souvent des meurtres.
- 2Vengeance, revanche personnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vendetta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne semble pas qu'au temps où la vendetta fonctionnait régulièrement en Corse, pour compléter ou corriger l'action d'une justice trop boiteuse, la population eût une moindre moralité qu'aujourd'hui.
Le mobile de ces crimes a toujours été uniquement la vengeance, la vendetta : vendetta pour une injure reçue, ou vendetta pour violation du grand principe de l’omerta. Le Sicilien, en général, aime à se faire justice par lui-même : […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evndetta
- vednetta
- venddetta
- vendeta
- vendetat
- vendteta
- venedtta
- venndetta
- vnedetta
- vvendetta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vendetta - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).