vicaire
\vi.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“vicaire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,936
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vicaire · vicaire · French
vicaire · rank #13,936 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,936
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verbes
Nearest frequency peer: verbes (-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 « vicaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- valet
valet
86,068 corpus weight
- vanille
vanille
86,067 corpus weight
- verbes
verbes
86,066 corpus weight
- vicaire
vicaire
86,065 corpus weight
- violeur
violeur
86,064 corpus weight
- votez
votez
86,062 corpus weight
What this shows « vicaire » 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 | vicaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vicaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around vicaire (IPA \vi.kɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,936 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vicaire, with forms such as "ivcaire", "vciaire", and "viacire". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "victime", "vilaine", "victoire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vicaire, spelled V-I-C-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Obtenu par personne interposée, par opposition à direct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vicaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis le XIXᵉ siècle un autre courant théologique a développé diverses théories sous le titre commun de « satisfaction vicaire ». On trouve un pressentiment ancien de cette expression dans un texte de la liturgie mozarabe qui attribue la rédemption à « l’office vicaire » (vicario munere) du Fils, lui même substitut (vicarius) de l'humanité coupable.
C'est le même rôle vicaire et la même responsabilité écrasante que Narsaï assigne au prêtre lorsque, dans son Explication des Mystères, il en vient aux préliminaires immédiats de l’anaphore ; la tonalité, la filiation chrysostomiennes et théodoriennes sont évidentes : Le prêtre offre maintenant le mystère de la rédemption de notre vie, rempli de crainte e…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivcaire
- vciaire
- viacire
- vicaier
- vicairre
- vicarie
- viccaire
- viciare
- vvicaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vicaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "vicaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).