vizir
\vi.ziʁ\
The verdict
“vizir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,427. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,427
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ministre d’un prince musulman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vizir · vizir · French
vizir · rank #30,427 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,427
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vivront
Nearest frequency peer: vivront (-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 « vizir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- virulent
virulent
69,577 corpus weight
- viticulteurs
viticulteurs
69,576 corpus weight
- vivront
vivront
69,575 corpus weight
- vizir
vizir
69,574 corpus weight
- véhiculer
véhiculer
69,573 corpus weight
- véranda
véranda
69,572 corpus weight
What this shows « vizir » 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 | vizir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ziʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vizir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vizir (IPA \vi.ziʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,427 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ministre d’un prince musulman.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vizir, with forms such as "ivzir", "viizr", and "vizirr". 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, "voir", "vomir", "vir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vizir, spelled V-I-Z-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ministre d’un prince musulman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vizir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On appelle vizirs du banc en Turquie, les vizirs qui ont séance avec le grand-vizir dans le divan, lorsqu’on examine les procès. Ils n’ont que voix consultative, & seulement lorsqu’ils sont mandés. Quelquefois néanmoins lorsqu’il s’agit de délibérations importantes, ils sont admis dans le conseil du cabinet avec le grand-vizir, le mufti & les cadileskers.…
Les vizirs, les pachas, les généraux, tous les fonctionnaires, toutes les autorités, en grand costume tous, et chamarrés de dorures, étaient parqués sur la grande place de Top-Kapou.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivzir
- viizr
- vizirr
- vizri
- vizzir
- vvizir
- vziir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vizir - 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
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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).