vibrer
\vi.bʁe\
The verdict
“vibrer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,281. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,281
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exécuter des vibrations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vibrer · vibrer · French
vibrer · rank #15,281 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,281
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vestimentaire
Nearest frequency peer: vestimentaire (-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 « vibrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transmises
transmises
84,723 corpus weight
- traque
traque
84,722 corpus weight
- vestimentai…
vestimentaire
84,721 corpus weight
- vibrer
vibrer
84,720 corpus weight
- Vidal
Vidal
84,719 corpus weight
- volley
volley
84,717 corpus weight
What this shows « vibrer » 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 | vibrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vibrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around vibrer (IPA \vi.bʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,281 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vibrer, with forms such as "ivbrer", "vbirer", and "vibbrer". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vire", "vier", "vivre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vibrer, spelled V-I-B-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exécuter des vibrations.
- 2Être profondément ému.
- 3Modifier les propriétés d’un corps par des vibrations, notamment le béton pour améliorer son homogénéité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vibrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant que les lames attaquaient mon vaillant navire et que leurs coups sourds faisaient résonner la coque qui vibrait et se plaignait sous les chocs, je restai allongé sur ma couchette.
Chaque diapason est monté sur sa caisse de résonnance^([sic]) et vibre assez longtemps pour qu'on puisse compter les battements pendant une minute et demie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivbrer
- vbirer
- vibbrer
- viberr
- vibrerr
- vibrre
- vibrrer
- virber
- vvibrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vibrer - 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 "vibrer", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).