Viagra
\vja.ɡʁa\
The verdict
“Viagra” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,019. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,019
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Citrate de sildénafil, médicament contre l’impuissance sexuelle et l’hypertension artérielle pulmonaire, développé par la firme pharmaceutique Pfizer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viagra · Viagra · French
Viagra · rank #30,019 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,019
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH VHS
Nearest frequency peer: VHS (-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 « Viagra »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vendaient
vendaient
69,985 corpus weight
- verdi
verdi
69,984 corpus weight
- VHS
VHS
69,983 corpus weight
- Viagra
Viagra
69,982 corpus weight
- Vicente
Vicente
69,981 corpus weight
- vipère
vipère
69,980 corpus weight
What this shows « Viagra » 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 | Viagra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vja.ɡʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Viagra »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Viagra (IPA \vja.ɡʁa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,019 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Citrate de sildénafil, médicament contre l’impuissance sexuelle et l’hypertension artérielle pulmonaire, développé par la firme pharmaceutique Pfizer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Viagra, with forms such as "ivagra", "vaigra", and "viagar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "vivra", "Vieira", "viager", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Viagra, spelled V-I-A-G-R-A.
Definition
- 1Citrate de sildénafil, médicament contre l’impuissance sexuelle et l’hypertension artérielle pulmonaire, développé par la firme pharmaceutique Pfizer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Viagra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
H.C. m’apprend qu’une fois par semaine il se rend aux Champs-Élysées dans le luxueux appartement d’une dame qui lui accorde une heure au tarif de mille cinq cents francs, préservatif compris. Soit. Pourtant je m’étonne quand il précise que, pour lui faire honneur, il doit quelques minutes avant prendre une pilule de Viagra (il lui faut une ordonnance pour…
Le Viagra supprime ce trouble constitutif du moi ; de ce fait, il dépsychologise autant qu’il déségoïse la sexualité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivagra
- vaigra
- viagar
- viaggra
- viagrra
- viarga
- vigara
- vviagra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Viagra - 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 "Viagra", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).