vervangen
The verdict
“vervangen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remplacer, substituer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vervangen · vervangen · French
vervangen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vervangen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vervangen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vervangen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Remplacer, substituer.".
vervangen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vervangen, spelled V-E-R-V-A-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Remplacer, substituer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vervangen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Op Ingarö had hij zijn eerste boot gekregen, een eenmans-jeugdzeilboot, een Optimist. Die werd vervangen door een Laser, om uiteindelijk plaats te maken voor een snelle tweemans-zwaardboot, een Flying Dutchman met een donkerblauwe romp.
Vervangen worden door.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.