vent
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Mouvement d’air extérieur et nettement perceptible suivant une direction déterminée.
- 2Air agité par un moyen quelconque.
- 3Être en quête de proie, chercher une affaire, une occasion.
- 4À l’air libre, qu’il y ait du vent ou non.
- 5Gaz retenus dans le corps de l’être humain ou d’autres animaux, pet → voir vents, lâcher un vent et faire un vent.
- 6Odeur qui vient des émanations d’un corps. Odeur qu’une bête laisse dans les lieux où elle a été, où elle a passé.
- 7Circonstances heureuses ou malheureuses.
- 8Nouvelle ; découverte.
- 9Chose vaine ; vide ; rien ; mensonge.
- 10Refus dédaigneux.
- 11Lignes de navigation sur les portulans.
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,352 in French
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