Vosges

/\voʒ\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,943

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

Vosges is aFrenchname. It means: Nom de famille. Pronounced \voʒ\. It ranks #9,943 in French word frequency. Often confused with Voss and votés.

Key facts for Vosges
PropertyValue
HeadwordVosges
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\voʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,943
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Vosges in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Vosges is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \voʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,943 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Vosges, with forms such as "ovsges", "vogses", and "vosegs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Voss", "votés", "voués", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Vosges, spelled V-O-S-G-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovsges,vogses,vosegs,vosgess,vosgges,vosgse,vossges,vsoges,vvosges

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Vosges

Misspelling Variants of "Vosges"

ovsges6vogses6vosegs6vosgess7vosgges7vosgse6vossges7vsoges6
Misspelling Variants of "Vosges"

Frequency rank: #9,943 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vosges"?
"Vosges" is spelled V-O-S-G-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \voʒ\.
What does "Vosges" mean?
As a name, "Vosges" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Vosges"?
"Vosges" is commonly confused with "Voss", "votés", "voués". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Vosges"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vosges" is \voʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Vosges" come from?
"Vosges" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.