vendetta

\vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\

/\vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « vendetta » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

vendetta vs Vedette
63% similar
vendetta vs vendent
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for vendetta
PropertyValue
Headwordvendetta
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,395
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vendetta »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).vendettase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Vallaud » (#28,394), « V1 » (#28,393), « verbalement » (#28,397). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vendetta » est au #28,395. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Haine, hostilité qui existe dans le bassin méditerranéen et dans les Balkans entre deux familles, et qui cause souvent des meurtres.
  2. 2
    Vengeance, revanche personnelle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vendetta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

evndetta2vednetta2venddetta1vendeta1vendetat2vendteta2venedtta2venndetta1
Edit distance from "vendetta"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vendetta"?
"vendetta" is spelled V-E-N-D-E-T-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is \vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\.
What does "vendetta" mean?
As a noun, "vendetta" means: Haine, hostilité qui existe dans le bassin méditerranéen et dans les Balkans entre deux familles, et qui cause souvent des meurtres.
What words are commonly confused with "vendetta"?
"vendetta" is commonly confused with "Vedette", "vendent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vendetta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vendetta" is \vɑ̃.dɛ.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vendetta" come from?
"vendetta" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vendetta", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list