vermine
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,574
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
vermine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble d’insectes parasites, malpropres, nuisibles et incommodes, comme les poux, les puces, les punaises, etc. ; utilisé pour les insectes infectant les humains, les animaux ou les plantes. Pronounced \vɛʁ.min\. Often confused with verne and Vérone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vermine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.min\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vermine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ.min\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,574 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vermine, with forms such as "evrmine", "vemrine", and "verimne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "verne", "Vérone", "vertige", 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 vermine, spelled V-E-R-M-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d’insectes parasites, malpropres, nuisibles et incommodes, comme les poux, les puces, les punaises, etc. ; utilisé pour les insectes infectant les humains, les animaux ou les plantes.
- 2Toute sorte de gens de mauvaise vie, de garnements dangereux ou incommodes pour la société.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrmine,vemrine,verimne,vermien,verminne,vermmine,vermnie,verrmine,vremine,vvermine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vermine
Misspelling Variants of "vermine"
Frequency rank: #26,574 in French
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