vodka
\vɔd.ka\
The verdict
“vodka” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,500
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau-de-vie à base de seigle, de blé, mais aussi de pomme de terre ou de betterave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vodka · vodka · French
vodka · rank #12,500 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,500
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vignoble
Nearest frequency peer: vignoble (-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 « vodka »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verrait
verrait
87,504 corpus weight
- Vic
Vic
87,503 corpus weight
- vignoble
vignoble
87,502 corpus weight
- vodka
vodka
87,501 corpus weight
- vécue
vécue
87,500 corpus weight
- échos
échos
87,499 corpus weight
What this shows « vodka » 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 | vodka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔd.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vodka »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vodka (IPA \vɔd.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,500 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Eau-de-vie à base de seigle, de blé, mais aussi de pomme de terre ou de betterave.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vodka, with forms such as "ovdka", "vdoka", and "vodak". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vota", "vola", "voilà", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vodka, spelled V-O-D-K-A.
Definition
- 1Eau-de-vie à base de seigle, de blé, mais aussi de pomme de terre ou de betterave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vodka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux Russes, généralement sobres, l’infusion de thé leur suffit, paraît-il, non sans une certaine addition de « vodka », qui est l’eau-de-vie moscovite par excellence.
Au retour, dans la moiteur du soir, elles entrent dans une épicerie russe, se chargent de zakouskis et de blinis. Sur le sable du salon, elles s'inventent une grignoterie arrosée de vodka aux herbes dont Aurore aime l'âpreté et la chaleur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovdka
- vdoka
- vodak
- voddka
- vodkka
- vokda
- vvodka
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vodka - 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).