vo
\vɛʁ.so\
The verdict
“vo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,609) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,609
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verso.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vo · vo · French
vo · rank #10,609 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,609
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH votent
Nearest frequency peer: votent (+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 neighbours of confusable “vo”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- vestiges
vestiges
89,396 corpus weight
- vilain
vilain
89,394 corpus weight
- vo
vo
89,392 corpus weight
- votent
votent
89,391 corpus weight
- western
western
89,390 corpus weight
- Wikipédia
Wikipédia
89,389 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “vo” against nearest ranked French headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | vo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “vo” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vo is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \vɛʁ.so\. Frequency #10,609 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Verso.".
vo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "VR", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vo, spelled V-O.
Definition
- 1Verso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par un usage général fort ancien, on a toléré certaines abréviations comme n’étant pas nuisibles, telles que celles de Mʳ ou sʳ pour Monsieur ou sieur ; Mᵉ pour maître ; Mᵐᵉ ou Dᵉ pour Madame ou dame ; MM. pour Messieurs ; fol., rᵒ, vᵒ, cᵉ, vol., nᵒ pour folio, recto, verso, case, volume, numéro ; led., lad., lesd. pour ledit, ladite et lesdits ou lesdites.
Antonyms
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.