ventouse
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,072
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
ventouse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de petite cloche de verre, qu’on applique sur la peau et dans l’intérieur de laquelle on raréfie l’air au moyen de la chaleur ou par un procédé mécanique, afin de soulever la peau et de produ... Pronounced \vɑ̃.tuz\. Often confused with venture and Ventoux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ventouse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.tuz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ventouse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɑ̃.tuz\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,072 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ventouse, with forms such as "evntouse", "venntouse", and "venotuse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "venture", "Ventoux", "vendeuse", 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 ventouse, spelled V-E-N-T-O-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petite cloche de verre, qu’on applique sur la peau et dans l’intérieur de laquelle on raréfie l’air au moyen de la chaleur ou par un procédé mécanique, afin de soulever la peau et de produire une révulsion locale.
- 2Organes dont quelques animaux aquatiques sont pourvus, et à l’aide desquels ils s’attachent aux différents corps, ou sucent, en faisant le vide.
- 3Dont la forme évoque une ventouse.
- 4Coupelle élastique et hermétique, que la pression atmosphérique permet de faire adhérer à des surfaces planes et lisses.
- 5Un outil à main dont le manche tient à son extrémité une membrane en forme de cloche, conçu pour déboucher le drain d’une cuvette, que l’on actionne en tirant sur l’outil dont l’embout recouvre la bouche du drain immergée dans le liquide, pour créer une dépression et ainsi faire reculer l’obstacle de son logement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evntouse,venntouse,venotuse,ventosue,ventoues,ventousse,venttouse,ventuose,vetnouse,vnetouse,vventouse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ventouse
Misspelling Variants of "ventouse"
Frequency rank: #40,072 in French
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