vidange
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,413
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
vidange is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de vider. Pronounced \vi.dɑ̃ʒ\. Often confused with visage and virage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vidange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.dɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vidange is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi.dɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,413 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for vidange, with forms such as "ivdange", "vdiange", and "viadnge". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "visage", "virage", "vivante", 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 vidange, spelled V-I-D-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de vider.
- 2Opération par laquelle on vide une fosse d’aisances.
- 3Remplacement de l’huile d’un moteur.
- 4Opération consistant à évacuer l’eau stockée dans un barrage, une retenue ou un réservoir, par ouverture des organes de vidange, afin d’assurer la sécurité, la gestion des crues ou la maintenance de l’ouvrage.
- 5État d’un récipient qui n’est pas plein.
- 6Bouteille consignée ; cadavre de bouteille.
- 7Désigne les matières, les immondices retirées d’un lieu qu’on vide ou qu’on nettoie.
- 8Ordure, déchet.
- 9Débardage des bois d’une coupe.
- 10Cloisonnement intermédiaire, dont s’embranchent d’autres cloisonnements.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivdange,vdiange,viadnge,vidagne,vidaneg,vidangge,vidannge,viddange,vidnage,vvidange
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vidange
Misspelling Variants of "vidange"
Frequency rank: #23,413 in French
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