vertige
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,034
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
vertige is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tournoiement de tête, indisposition dans laquelle il semble que tout tourne. Pronounced \vɛʁ.tiʒ\. Often confused with vestige and voltige.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vertige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.tiʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vertige is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ.tiʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,034 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for vertige, with forms such as "evrtige", "veritge", and "verrtige". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vestige", "voltige", "vestiges", 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 vertige, spelled V-E-R-T-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tournoiement de tête, indisposition dans laquelle il semble que tout tourne.
- 2Sensation intense et prenante du vide lorsqu'on est en hauteur et notamment que l'on surplombe directement le paysage sans garde-fou ; cette sensation est souvent associée à une peur panique de tomber, ou de se laisser aller comme si le vide pouvait nous happer.
- 3Propension à ce malaise.
- 4Égarement ; trouble d’esprit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrtige,veritge,verrtige,vertgie,vertieg,vertigge,verttige,vetrige,vretige,vvertige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vertige
Misspelling Variants of "vertige"
Frequency rank: #16,034 in French
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