vigilance
\vi.ʒi.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“vigilance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,251
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attention que l’on porte avec diligence, avec activité, sur quelque chose ou sur quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vigilance · vigilance · French
vigilance · rank #9,251 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,251
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viendront
Nearest frequency peer: viendront (-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 « vigilance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- valorisation
valorisation
90,752 corpus weight
- viendront
viendront
90,751 corpus weight
- vigilance
vigilance
90,750 corpus weight
- vigne
vigne
90,749 corpus weight
- végétation
végétation
90,748 corpus weight
- way
way
90,747 corpus weight
What this shows « vigilance » 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 | vigilance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ʒi.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vigilance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around vigilance (IPA \vi.ʒi.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,251 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for vigilance, with forms such as "ivgilance", "vgiilance", and "viggilance". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "vigilant", "vigilants", "vigilante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vigilance, spelled V-I-G-I-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Attention que l’on porte avec diligence, avec activité, sur quelque chose ou sur quelqu’un.
- 2Nom donné à la pierre sphérique que tient dans sa patte la grue dans sa représentation ordinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vigilance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est cette vigilance qui va permettre d’être réactif face à l’imprévu, ne serait-ce que par le gain de temps de ne pas avoir à collecter des informations sur ce qui est en train de se passer.
Les vigilances des risques sanitaires sont des dispositifs réglementaires visant le repérage d’événements indésirables ou de dysfonctionnements du système de santé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivgilance
- vgiilance
- viggilance
- vigialnce
- vigilacne
- vigilancce
- vigilanec
- vigilannce
- vigillance
- vigilnace
- vigliance
- viiglance
- vvigilance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vigilance - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).