voguant
\vɔ.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“voguant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,473 among 148,117 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,473
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe présent de voguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voguant · voguant · French
voguant · rank #74,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,473
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 148,117
- PHOTO-FINISH vocables
Nearest frequency peer: vocables (-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 “voguant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- violerait
violerait
25,531 corpus weight
- visionnant
visionnant
25,530 corpus weight
- vocables
vocables
25,529 corpus weight
- voguant
voguant
25,528 corpus weight
- voyagera
voyagera
25,527 corpus weight
- Wakanda
Wakanda
25,526 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “voguant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voguant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔ.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voguant” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
voguant is uncommon French at frequency #74,473 among 148,117 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɔ.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
voguant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 voguant, spelled V-O-G-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de voguer.
- 2Se dit d’une embarcation posée sur une onde.
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 "voguant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.