vomir
\vɔ.miʁ\
The verdict
“vomir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,797. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,797
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rejeter convulsivement par la bouche des matières contenues dans l’estomac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vomir · vomir · French
vomir · rank #8,797 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,797
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voisines
Nearest frequency peer: voisines (-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 « vomir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Vendée
Vendée
91,208 corpus weight
- vitre
vitre
91,206 corpus weight
- voisines
voisines
91,205 corpus weight
- vomir
vomir
91,204 corpus weight
- économistes
économistes
91,202 corpus weight
- étonner
étonner
91,200 corpus weight
What this shows « vomir » 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 | vomir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔ.miʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vomir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vomir (IPA \vɔ.miʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,797 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vomir, with forms such as "ovmir", "vmoir", and "voimr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vor", "voor", "voui", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 vomir, spelled V-O-M-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rejeter convulsivement par la bouche des matières contenues dans l’estomac.
- 2Rejeter au-dehors.
- 3Proférer avec violence.
- 4Rejeter violemment ; avoir en exécration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vomir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’ils étaient beaux vraiment ces vieux dragons horrifiques, endentés jusqu’au fond de la gueule, vomissant des flammes, couverts d’écailles, […]
Mon père, en veston d’intérieur, détenait le remède, petit flacon rempli d’un liquide brunâtre qui, disait-il, contenait une plume qui me chatouillerait la gorge, de manière à me faire vomir. Je ne n’aimais pas prendre le vomitif, mais l’idée de la plume m’amusait. ; l’idée aussi d’être le personnage central du drame qui se jouait, en plein milieu de la n…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovmir
- vmoir
- voimr
- vomirr
- vommir
- vomri
- vvomir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vomir - 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).