vom
\fɔm\
The verdict
“vom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,100) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,100
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de von dem: du..
Corpus desk
Index FR-vom · vom · French
vom · rank #47,100 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,100
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visitait
Nearest frequency peer: visitait (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vom »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Viry
Viry
52,904 corpus weight
- visez
visez
52,903 corpus weight
- visitait
visitait
52,902 corpus weight
- vom
vom
52,901 corpus weight
- VRP
VRP
52,900 corpus weight
- vulgariser
vulgariser
52,899 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vom » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | vom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \fɔm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vom »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vom is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \fɔm\. Frequency #47,100 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for vom in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vom, spelled V-O-M.
Definition
- 1Contraction de von dem: du..
- 2Contraction de von einem: d'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wie viele Antioxidantien im Apfel stecken, hängt von der Sorte und vom Klima ab. Generell gilt: Alte Sorten haben meist einen höheren Gehalt an Polyphenolen. Aus neueren, besonders süßen Sorten wurden sie oft herausgezüchtet.
Milzbrand (Anthrax) ist eine gefährliche Infektionskrankheit, die durch Bakterien vom Tier zum Menschen übertragen wird.
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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