Vigny

\vi.ɲi\

/\vi.ɲi\/ name

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The verdict

“Vigny” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,857
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vigny · Vigny · French

Vigny · rank #48,857 · 8 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,857
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH verticalité

Nearest frequency peer: verticalité (-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 « Vigny »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Vigny » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Vigny vs vin
40% similar
Vigny vs vins
40% similar
Vigny vs Vigo
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Vigny
PropertyValue
HeadwordVigny
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\vi.ɲi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#48,857
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Vigny »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Vignyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « verticalité » (#48,856), « vilar » (#48,858), « vernier » (#48,855). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Vigny » est au #48,857. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Vigny (IPA \vi.ɲi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,857 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vigny, with forms such as "ivgny", "vginy", and "viggny". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "vin", "vins", "Vigo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Vigny, spelled V-I-G-N-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.
  2. 2
    Commune française, située dans le département du Val-d’Oise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Vigny appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je viens de Vigny.
  2. Je me rends à Vigny.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivgny
  • vginy
  • viggny
  • vignny
  • vignyy
  • vigyn
  • vingy
  • vvigny

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vigny - 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.

ivgny2vginy2viggny1vignny1vignyy1vigyn2vingy2vvigny1
Edit distance from "Vigny"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vigny"?
"Vigny" is spelled V-I-G-N-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.ɲi\.
What does "Vigny" mean?
As a proper noun, "Vigny" means: Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.
What words are commonly confused with "Vigny"?
"Vigny" is commonly confused with "vin", "vins", "Vigo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Vigny"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vigny" is \vi.ɲi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Vigny" come from?
"Vigny" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Vigny", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vilar#48,858xénon#48,870trapp#48,842token#48,832

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Varois8 variantstruelle8 variantstartre8 variantsSoraya8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list