vital
\vi.tal\
The verdict
“vital” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,636. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,636
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la vie, qui est essentiel à la vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vital · vital · French
vital · rank #8,636 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,636
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vignes
Nearest frequency peer: vignes (-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 “vital”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vendent
vendent
91,369 corpus weight
- venons
venons
91,368 corpus weight
- vertus
vertus
91,367 corpus weight
- vignes
vignes
91,366 corpus weight
- vital
vital
91,365 corpus weight
- vogue
vogue
91,364 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vital” 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 | vital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.tal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “vital” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vital (IPA \vi.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,636 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vital, with forms such as "ivtal", "viatl", and "vitall". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vite", "viva", "vito", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vital, spelled V-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la vie, qui est essentiel à la vie.
- 2Qui est essentiel, d’une nécessité absolue.
- 3Qui est en bonne santé, en pleine forme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Force vitale.
Le cœur, le poumon, le cerveau sont des organes vitaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivtal
- viatl
- vitall
- vitla
- vittal
- vtial
- vvital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vital - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "vital", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "vital". Here's where to go from here.
- "vital" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "vite". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #8,636 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.