vêtement
\vɛt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“vêtement” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,015. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,015
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui sert à se vêtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vetement · vêtement · French
vêtement · rank #7,015 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,015
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vladimir
Nearest frequency peer: Vladimir (-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 « vêtement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- téléphonique
téléphonique
92,989 corpus weight
- vaisselle
vaisselle
92,988 corpus weight
- Vladimir
Vladimir
92,987 corpus weight
- vêtement
vêtement
92,986 corpus weight
- âgés
âgés
92,985 corpus weight
- Écosse
Écosse
92,983 corpus weight
What this shows « vêtement » 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 | vêtement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vêtement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around vêtement (IPA \vɛt.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,015 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for vêtement, with forms such as "vetement", "vtêement", and "vvêtement". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "vivement", "virement", "vêtements", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vêtement, spelled V-Ê-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert à se vêtir.
- 2Pièce formée par quatre triangles, qui couvrent les quatre angles de l'écu, de manière à ne laisser voir du champ que la forme d'une grande losange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vêtement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes tempes battent ; toute ma chair va à cette femme presque nue et charmante dans le matin et dans le transparent vêtement qui enferme la douce odeur d’elle…
Pourquoi porter des chapeaux et des vêtements, quand la pigmentation de la peau est la meilleure défense contre le soleil des tropiques ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- vetement
- vtêement
- vvêtement
- vêetment
- vêteemnt
- vêtemennt
- vêtementt
- vêtemetn
- vêtemment
- vêtemnet
- vêtmeent
- vêttement
- êvtement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vêtement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vêtement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).