vergogne
\vɛʁ.ɡɔɲ\
The verdict
“vergogne” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,588
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retenue, pudeur, modestie, honte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vergogne · vergogne · French
vergogne · rank #29,588 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,588
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaines
Nearest frequency peer: vaines (-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 « vergogne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- universelle…
universellement
70,416 corpus weight
- vacarme
vacarme
70,415 corpus weight
- vaines
vaines
70,414 corpus weight
- vergogne
vergogne
70,413 corpus weight
- versent
versent
70,412 corpus weight
- viables
viables
70,411 corpus weight
What this shows « vergogne » 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 | vergogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.ɡɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vergogne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around vergogne (IPA \vɛʁ.ɡɔɲ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,588 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Retenue, pudeur, modestie, honte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for vergogne, with forms such as "evrgogne", "vegrogne", and "verggogne". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Vérone", "vergne", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vergogne, spelled V-E-R-G-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Retenue, pudeur, modestie, honte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vergogne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous l’avons, et je puis voir à l’aise la trogne Du malheureux pendard qui cause ma vergogne.
Malgré le feu des bougies, le cri des passions, l’aspect des vases d’or et d’argent, la fumée des vins, malgré la contemplation des femmes les plus ravissantes, peut-être y avait-il encore, au fond des cœurs, un peu de cette vergogne pour les choses humaines et divines qui lutte jusqu’à ce que l’orgie l’ait noyée dans les derniers flots d’un vin pétillant ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrgogne
- vegrogne
- verggogne
- verggone
- vergogen
- vergoggne
- vergognne
- vergonge
- veroggne
- verrgogne
- vregogne
- vvergogne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vergogne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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