vitriol
\vi.tʁi.jɔl\
The verdict
“vitriol” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,596
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné, jadis, aux divers sulfates.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vitriol · vitriol · French
vitriol · rank #41,596 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,596
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vivions
Nearest frequency peer: vivions (+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 « vitriol »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vier
vier
58,409 corpus weight
- vindicte
vindicte
58,408 corpus weight
- vitriol
vitriol
58,405 corpus weight
- vivions
vivions
58,404 corpus weight
- voltigeurs
voltigeurs
58,403 corpus weight
- vulnérabili…
vulnérabilités
58,402 corpus weight
What this shows « vitriol » 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 | vitriol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.tʁi.jɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vitriol »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around vitriol (IPA \vi.tʁi.jɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,596 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vitriol, with forms such as "ivtriol", "virtiol", and "vitirol". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "vitro", "viril", "vitrine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vitriol, spelled V-I-T-R-I-O-L.
Definition
- 1Nom donné, jadis, aux divers sulfates.
- 2Huile de vitriol (acide sulfurique concentré).
- 3Remarque, considération, parole, vive et blessante.
- 4Eau-de-vie, mauvaise eau-de-vie, eau-de-vie forte et de basse qualité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vitriol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On sait que le colcothar est une substance vitriolique ; ou, pour mieux dire, c’est un véritable vitriol que l’on rougit en le poussant par le feu jusqu’à un certain degré.
Il y a plus d’un an que M. Fourcy conserve une solution martiale spathique qui provient de la décomposition du vitriol de mars par l’huile de chaux, sans qu’il se soit formé de dépôt ni de pellicule, & avec laquelle , par le moyen de l’alkali Prussien, il forme de très-beau bleu de Prusse, sans avoir recours aux acides pour l’aviver.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivtriol
- virtiol
- vitirol
- vitrilo
- vitrioll
- vitroil
- vitrriol
- vittriol
- vtiriol
- vvitriol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vitriol - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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