vipère
\vi.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“vipère” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,021
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des espèces de serpents de taille modérée, à tête triangulaire aux nombreuses petites écailles, à pupilles elliptiques et à queue courte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vipere · vipère · French
vipère · rank #30,021 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,021
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vicente
Nearest frequency peer: Vicente (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vipère”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- VHS
VHS
69,983 corpus weight
- Viagra
Viagra
69,982 corpus weight
- Vicente
Vicente
69,981 corpus weight
- vipère
vipère
69,980 corpus weight
- virements
virements
69,979 corpus weight
- visitée
visitée
69,978 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vipère” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | vipère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “vipère” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around vipère (IPA \vi.pɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,021 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vipère, with forms such as "ivpère", "vipere", and "vippère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "vire", "vivre", "virer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vipère, spelled V-I-P-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de serpents de taille modérée, à tête triangulaire aux nombreuses petites écailles, à pupilles elliptiques et à queue courte.
- 2Personne malfaisante.
- 3Chose malfaisante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vipère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vipères, carnivores, ont des crochets à venin et sont venimeuses.
J’y ai chassé un mois, et n’ai pas fait lever quinze perdrix ; l’hiver de 1830 a tout tué ; en échange, il a épargné les vipères, et on en rencontre à chaque pas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivpère
- vipere
- vippère
- viprèe
- vipèer
- vipèrre
- vièpre
- vpière
- vvipère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vipère - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vipère", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "vipère". Here's where to go from here.
- "vipère" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "vire". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #30,021 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "V" letter cohort. V–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.