Ventoux

\vɑ̃.tu\

/\vɑ̃.tu\/ name

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The verdict

“Ventoux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,091
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sommet des Préalpes situé dans le département du Vaucluse, en France.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ventoux · Ventoux · French

Ventoux · rank #39,091 · 10 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #39,091
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vendémiaire

Nearest frequency peer: vendémiaire (-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 « Ventoux »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Ventoux » 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).

Ventoux vs ventouse
63% similar

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

Key facts for Ventoux
PropertyValue
HeadwordVentoux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\vɑ̃.tu\
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,091
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ventoux »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Ventouxse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vendémiaire » (#39,090), « ventriculaire » (#39,092), « VDM » (#39,089). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Ventoux » est au #39,091. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Ventoux (IPA \vɑ̃.tu\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,091 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sommet des Préalpes situé dans le département du Vaucluse, en France.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ventoux, with forms such as "evntoux", "venntoux", and "venotux". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ventouse", 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. The correct French form is Ventoux, spelled V-E-N-T-O-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sommet des Préalpes situé dans le département du Vaucluse, en France.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. le Ventoux, que mon livre de lecture nomme « le pasteur des collines ».

Synonyms

mont Ventoux

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evntoux
  • venntoux
  • venotux
  • ventouxx
  • ventoxu
  • venttoux
  • ventuox
  • vetnoux
  • vnetoux
  • vventoux

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ventoux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

evntoux2venntoux1venotux2ventouxx1ventoxu2venttoux1ventuox2vetnoux2
Edit distance from "Ventoux"

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 "Ventoux"?
"Ventoux" is spelled V-E-N-T-O-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \vɑ̃.tu\.
What does "Ventoux" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ventoux" means: Sommet des Préalpes situé dans le département du Vaucluse, en France.
What words are commonly confused with "Ventoux"?
"Ventoux" is commonly confused with "ventouse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Ventoux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ventoux" is \vɑ̃.tu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ventoux" come from?
"Ventoux" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

varenne#39,088vantait#39,086Vallier#39,085voltage#39,098

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list