voisinage

\vwa.zi.naʒ\

/\vwa.zi.naʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“voisinage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,946. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,946
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proximité d’un lieu à l’égard d’un autre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-voisinage · voisinage · French

voisinage · rank #8,946 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,946
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH viser

Nearest frequency peer: viser (-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 « voisinage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « voisinage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

voisinage vs voisine
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for voisinage
PropertyValue
Headwordvoisinage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vwa.zi.naʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,946
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voisinage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).voisinagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « viser » (#8,945), « Yann » (#8,947), « vertes » (#8,944). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « voisinage » est au #8,946. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around voisinage (IPA \vwa.zi.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,946 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for voisinage, with forms such as "ovisinage", "viosinage", and "voiisnage". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "voisine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 voisinage, spelled V-O-I-S-I-N-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Proximité d’un lieu à l’égard d’un autre.
  2. 2
    Lieu situé à proximité d'un autre.
  3. 3
    Espace, lieu ou région qui se trouve à faible distance du point considéré, qu'il soit ou non habité.
  4. 4
    Proximité d’un événement.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des personnes voisines.
  6. 6
    Ensemble des rapports existant entre les personnes habitant à proximité les unes des autres ; comportement des voisins.
  7. 7
    Enquête auprès du voisinage.
  8. 8
    Proximité d’une partie du corps.
  9. 9
    Proximité d’un repère.
  10. 10
    Voisinage d'un point x dans un espace topologique : partie contenant un ouvert auquel appartient ce point x.
  11. 11
    Choses qui sont rapprochées, rassemblées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how voisinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je regrette, pour notre établissement, le voisinage de ce volcan en activité.
  2. Enfin, dans le voisinage des côtes, l’hydrographie de l'Arctique ou de l'Antarctique est incomplète ou nulle ; […].

Synonyms

voisinanceproximitéfréquentationententeapprocheentouragealentoursenvironsquartier

This word in other languages

neighbourhood(English)vecindario(Español)Nachbarschaft(Deutsch)vizinhança(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovisinage
  • viosinage
  • voiisnage
  • voisiange
  • voisinaeg
  • voisinagge
  • voisingae
  • voisinnage
  • voisniage
  • voissinage
  • vosiinage
  • vvoisinage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voisinage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ovisinage2viosinage2voiisnage2voisiange2voisinaeg2voisinagge1voisingae2voisinnage1
Edit distance from "voisinage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voisinage"?
"voisinage" is spelled V-O-I-S-I-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vwa.zi.naʒ\.
What does "voisinage" mean?
As a noun, "voisinage" means: Proximité d’un lieu à l’égard d’un autre.
What words are commonly confused with "voisinage"?
"voisinage" is commonly confused with "voisine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "voisinage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voisinage" is \vwa.zi.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voisinage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voisinage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

rentable12 variantsrappellent12 variantsrandonnée12 variantspeintres12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list