Vexin
\vɛk.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“Vexin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,594
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région et plateau du nord-ouest de la France, partagé entre l’Île-de-France et la Normandie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vexin · Vexin · French
Vexin · rank #39,594 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,594
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vitrage
Nearest frequency peer: vitrage (+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 « Vexin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- utopies
utopies
60,411 corpus weight
- vachon
vachon
60,410 corpus weight
- Vendéen
Vendéen
60,409 corpus weight
- Vexin
Vexin
60,407 corpus weight
- vitrage
vitrage
60,406 corpus weight
- Walters
Walters
60,404 corpus weight
What this shows « Vexin » 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 | Vexin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vɛk.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Vexin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Vexin (IPA \vɛk.sɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,594 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région et plateau du nord-ouest de la France, partagé entre l’Île-de-France et la Normandie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vexin, with forms such as "evxin", "veixn", and "vexinn". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "vin", "vain", "vexé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Vexin, spelled V-E-X-I-N.
Definition
- 1Région et plateau du nord-ouest de la France, partagé entre l’Île-de-France et la Normandie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vexin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Vexin, par exemple, on compte encore 5% de latéméditerranéennes : Hippocrepis comosa, Coronilla minima, Astragalus monspessulanus, Euphorbia gerardiana, Scleropoa rigida appartiennent à ce groupe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evxin
- veixn
- vexinn
- vexni
- vexxin
- vvexin
- vxein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vexin - 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 "Vexin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).