vésicule
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,605
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
vésicule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sac membraneux semblable à une petite vessie. Pronounced \ve.zi.kyl\. Often confused with vestibule and véhicule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vésicule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.zi.kyl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vésicule is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.zi.kyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,605 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for vésicule, with forms such as "vesicule", "vséicule", and "vvésicule". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "vestibule", "véhicule", "véhicules", 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 vésicule, spelled V-É-S-I-C-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sac membraneux semblable à une petite vessie.
- 2Lésion cutanée, légèrement proéminente, dont la sommité plus ou moins translucide est remplie de liquide clair. Selon la taille on parle aussi de bulle et de phlyctène.
- 3Compartiment intracellulaire de petite taille, de forme sphérique et parfois nommée granule
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: vesicule,vséicule,vvésicule,véiscule,vésciule,vésiccule,vésiclue,vésicuel,vésiculle,vésiucle,véssicule,évsicule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vésicule
Misspelling Variants of "vésicule"
Frequency rank: #37,605 in French
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