vs
\vɛʁ.sys\
The verdict
“vs” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,456) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,456
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Versus. Contre, par opposition à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vs · vs · French
vs · rank #4,456 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,456
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voisine
Nearest frequency peer: voisine (-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 « vs »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- utilité
utilité
95,548 corpus weight
- vocation
vocation
95,547 corpus weight
- voisine
voisine
95,546 corpus weight
- vs
vs
95,545 corpus weight
- accorder
accorder
95,543 corpus weight
- achats
achats
95,542 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vs » 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 | vs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.sys\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vs »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vs is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "VW", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \vɛʁ.sys\. Frequency #4,456 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Versus. Contre, par opposition à.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vs in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "VW", "VT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vs, spelled V-S.
Definition
- 1Versus. Contre, par opposition à.
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.