vintage

\vin.tɛdʒ\

/\vin.tɛdʒ\/ adj

The verdict

“vintage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,781
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Daté d’une certaine époque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vintage · vintage · French

vintage · rank #15,781 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,781
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH yu

Nearest frequency peer: yu (+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 « vintage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « vintage » 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).

vintage vs visage
71% similar
vintage vs virage
71% similar
vintage vs vitale
71% similar

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

Key facts for vintage
PropertyValue
Headwordvintage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\vin.tɛdʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,781
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vintage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).vintagese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « yu » (#15,782), « Ulysse » (#15,779), « écouler » (#15,783). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vintage » est au #15,781. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around vintage (IPA \vin.tɛdʒ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,781 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Daté d’une certaine époque.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vintage, with forms such as "ivntage", "vinatge", and "vinntage". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "visage", "virage", "vitale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vintage, spelled V-I-N-T-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Daté d’une certaine époque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] des robes de jersey de Deneuve au look « Drôles de dames » de Judith Godrèche, le défilé vintage se révèle follement drôle.
  2. Ce logo est en effet authentiquement vintage : il a été créé en 1977 par José María Cruz Novillo et reste utilisé aujourd’hui par le parti, avec quelques modifications.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivntage
  • vinatge
  • vinntage
  • vintaeg
  • vintagge
  • vintgae
  • vinttage
  • vitnage
  • vnitage
  • vvintage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vintage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ivntage2vinatge2vinntage1vintaeg2vintagge1vintgae2vinttage1vitnage2
Edit distance from "vintage"

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 "vintage"?
"vintage" is spelled V-I-N-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vin.tɛdʒ\.
What does "vintage" mean?
As an adjective, "vintage" means: Daté d’une certaine époque.
What words are commonly confused with "vintage"?
"vintage" is commonly confused with "visage", "virage", "vitale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vintage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vintage" is \vin.tɛdʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vintage" come from?
"vintage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vintage", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list