vicaire

/\vi.kɛʁ\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,936

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

vicaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct. Pronounced \vi.kɛʁ\. Often confused with victime and vilaine.

Key facts for vicaire
PropertyValue
Headwordvicaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\vi.kɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,936
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vicaire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vicaire is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi.kɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,936 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for vicaire, with forms such as "ivcaire", "vciaire", and "viacire". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "victime", "vilaine", "victoire", 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 vicaire, spelled V-I-C-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivcaire,vciaire,viacire,vicaier,vicairre,vicarie,viccaire,viciare,vvicaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vicaire

Misspelling Variants of "vicaire"

ivcaire7vciaire7viacire7vicaier7vicairre8vicarie7viccaire8viciare7
Misspelling Variants of "vicaire"

Frequency rank: #13,936 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vicaire"?
"vicaire" is spelled V-I-C-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.kɛʁ\.
What does "vicaire" mean?
As an adj, "vicaire" means: Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct.
What words are commonly confused with "vicaire"?
"vicaire" is commonly confused with "victime", "vilaine", "victoire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vicaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vicaire" is \vi.kɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vicaire" come from?
"vicaire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.