Virginia
\viʁ.ʒi.nja\
The verdict
“Virginia” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,306
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virginia · Virginia · French
Virginia · rank #17,306 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH victorieuse
Nearest frequency peer: victorieuse (-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 « Virginia »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Vendôme
Vendôme
82,698 corpus weight
- victorieuse
victorieuse
82,696 corpus weight
- Virginia
Virginia
82,695 corpus weight
- virginité
virginité
82,694 corpus weight
- virgule
virgule
82,693 corpus weight
- vivra
vivra
82,692 corpus weight
What this shows « Virginia » 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 | Virginia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \viʁ.ʒi.nja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Virginia »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Virginia (IPA \viʁ.ʒi.nja\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,306 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Virginia, with forms such as "ivrginia", "vigrinia", and "virgginia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Virginie", "virginité", "virgin", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Virginia, spelled V-I-R-G-I-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Virginia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, on peut désormais aller aux archives Suzanne-Citron à Bobigny et déposer ses enfants aux crèches Emmi-Pikler et Virginia-Apgar à Drancy, Suzanne-Lacore et Betty-Williams à La Courneuve et Mariama-Bâ à Épinay-sur-Seine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivrginia
- vigrinia
- virgginia
- virgiina
- virginai
- virginnia
- virgniia
- virignia
- virrginia
- vriginia
- vvirginia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Virginia - 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 "Virginia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).