Vercors
\vɛʁ.kɔʁ\
The verdict
“Vercors” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,655
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Massif montagneux des Préalpes, à cheval sur les départements de l’Isère et de la Drôme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vercors · Vercors · French
Vercors · rank #27,655 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,655
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaudou
Nearest frequency peer: vaudou (-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 « Vercors »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- valorisant
valorisant
72,349 corpus weight
- vaudou
vaudou
72,347 corpus weight
- Vercors
Vercors
72,346 corpus weight
- vestimentai…
vestimentaires
72,345 corpus weight
- vigoureuse
vigoureuse
72,344 corpus weight
- violets
violets
72,343 corpus weight
What this shows « Vercors » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vercors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Vercors »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Vercors (IPA \vɛʁ.kɔʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,655 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Massif montagneux des Préalpes, à cheval sur les départements de l’Isère et de la Drôme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vercors, with forms such as "evrcors", "vecrors", and "verccors". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "verrons", "vergers", "verrous", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Vercors, spelled V-E-R-C-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1Massif montagneux des Préalpes, à cheval sur les départements de l’Isère et de la Drôme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vercors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si, dans les contreforts du Vercors, vous entendez un cri de loup, ne vous inquiétez pas tout de suite. C’est le rituel de techniciens de l’Office français de la biodiversité, qui poussent le cri du loup dans un cône de chantier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrcors
- vecrors
- verccors
- vercorrs
- vercorss
- vercosr
- vercros
- verocrs
- verrcors
- vrecors
- vvercors
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vercors - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Vercors", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).