Viennois
\vjɛ.nwa\
The verdict
“Viennois” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,067
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de la ville de Vienne, en Autriche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viennois · Viennois · French
Viennois · rank #33,067 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,067
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH venture
Nearest frequency peer: venture (-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 « Viennois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- valets
valets
66,937 corpus weight
- velvet
velvet
66,936 corpus weight
- venture
venture
66,935 corpus weight
- Viennois
Viennois
66,934 corpus weight
- virulence
virulence
66,933 corpus weight
- viticoles
viticoles
66,932 corpus weight
What this shows « Viennois » 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 | Viennois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛ.nwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Viennois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Viennois (IPA \vjɛ.nwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,067 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Viennois, with forms such as "ivennois", "veinnois", and "viennios". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "viennes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Viennois, spelled V-I-E-N-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de la ville de Vienne, en Autriche.
- 2Habitant de la ville de Vienne, en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Viennois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que Zola fait d’Offenbach « le dieu de sauterie », le directeur d’un « bastringue », que Barbey d’Aurevilly l’accuse de « voyoucratiser » le théâtre, Nietzsche y voit « une musique française avec un esprit voltairien, libre, impertinente, avec un petit grincement sardonique mais claire, spirituelle jusqu’à la banalité (il ne farde rien) et dépourvu…
Pour se défendre de l'offensive ottomane, les Viennois avaient monté plus de trois cents canons sur les ravelins et les bastions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivennois
- veinnois
- viennios
- viennoiss
- viennosi
- vienois
- vienonis
- vinenois
- vviennois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Viennois - 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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