vintage
\vin.tɛdʒ\
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
- télévisé
télévisé
84,223 corpus weight
- Ulysse
Ulysse
84,222 corpus weight
- vintage
vintage
84,220 corpus weight
- yu
yu
84,219 corpus weight
- écouler
écouler
84,218 corpus weight
- équipées
équipées
84,217 corpus weight
What this shows « vintage » 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 | vintage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vin.tɛdʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vintage »
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
- 1Daté d’une certaine époque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vintage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] des robes de jersey de Deneuve au look « Drôles de dames » de Judith Godrèche, le défilé vintage se révèle follement drôle.
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.
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
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).