vison
\vi.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“vison” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,204. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,204
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petit mammifère de la famille des mustélidés, dont la fourrure est très estimée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vison · vison · French
vison · rank #36,204 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,204
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viel
Nearest frequency peer: viel (-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 « vison »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vendons
vendons
63,800 corpus weight
- vertigineux
vertigineux
63,799 corpus weight
- viel
viel
63,798 corpus weight
- vison
vison
63,797 corpus weight
- within
within
63,795 corpus weight
- zapping
zapping
63,794 corpus weight
What this shows « vison » 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 | vison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vison »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vison (IPA \vi.zɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,204 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vison, with forms such as "ivson", "viosn", and "visno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "von", "vito", "VIVO", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vison, spelled V-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit mammifère de la famille des mustélidés, dont la fourrure est très estimée.
- 2Vison d’Europe, au pelage brun foncé avec une tache blanche sur le menton et la lèvre supérieure.
- 3Fourrure de cet animal.
- 4Manteau de vison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vison d’Amérique (Mustela vison), élevé pour sa fourrure, est deux fois plus gros que le vison d’Europe (Mustela lutreola), menacé de disparition.
Le chat-pêcheur, la martre et le vison abondaient le long du torrent mais n’étaient point dangereux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivson
- viosn
- visno
- visonn
- visson
- vsion
- vvison
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vison - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).