vent

/\vɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,352

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement d’air extérieur et nettement perceptible suivant une direction déterminée. Pronounced \vɑ̃\. It ranks #1,352 in French word frequency. Often confused with VT and VN.

Key facts for vent
PropertyValue
Headwordvent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɑ̃\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,352
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vent in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vent is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,352 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for vent, with forms such as "evnt", "vennt", and "ventt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VT", "VN", "vit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is vent, spelled V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mouvement d’air extérieur et nettement perceptible suivant une direction déterminée.
  2. 2
    Air agité par un moyen quelconque.
  3. 3
    Être en quête de proie, chercher une affaire, une occasion.
  4. 4
    À l’air libre, qu’il y ait du vent ou non.
  5. 5
    Gaz retenus dans le corps de l’être humain ou d’autres animaux, pet → voir vents, lâcher un vent et faire un vent.
  6. 6
    Odeur qui vient des émanations d’un corps. Odeur qu’une bête laisse dans les lieux où elle a été, où elle a passé.
  7. 7
    Circonstances heureuses ou malheureuses.
  8. 8
    Nouvelle ; découverte.
  9. 9
    Chose vaine ; vide ; rien ; mensonge.
  10. 10
    Refus dédaigneux.
  11. 11
    Lignes de navigation sur les portulans.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: evnt,vennt,ventt,vetn,vnet,vvent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vent

Misspelling Variants of "vent"

evnt4vennt5ventt5vetn4vnet4vvent5
Misspelling Variants of "vent"

Frequency rank: #1,352 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vent"?
"vent" is spelled V-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \vɑ̃\.
What does "vent" mean?
As a noun, "vent" means: Mouvement d’air extérieur et nettement perceptible suivant une direction déterminée.
What words are commonly confused with "vent"?
"vent" is commonly confused with "VT", "VN", "vit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vent" is \vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vent" come from?
"vent" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.