vulve
\vylv\
The verdict
“vulve” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,080
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des organes génitaux externes des filles et des femmes et de certaines femelles de mammifères, constitué principalement des grandes lèvres et des petites lèvres enserrant l’entrée du vagin...
Corpus desk
Index FR-vulve · vulve · French
vulve · rank #40,080 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,080
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vla
Nearest frequency peer: vla (-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 « vulve »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- visionnaires
visionnaires
59,924 corpus weight
- VK
VK
59,923 corpus weight
- vla
vla
59,922 corpus weight
- vulve
vulve
59,921 corpus weight
- vénérer
vénérer
59,920 corpus weight
- worlds
worlds
59,918 corpus weight
What this shows « vulve » 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 | vulve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vylv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vulve »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vulve (IPA \vylv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,080 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des organes génitaux externes des filles et des femmes et de certaines femelles de mammifères, constitué principalement des grandes lèvres et des petites lèvres enserrant l’entrée du vagin...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vulve, with forms such as "uvlve", "vluve", and "vulev". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "vue", "vive", "volé", 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vulve, spelled V-U-L-V-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des organes génitaux externes des filles et des femmes et de certaines femelles de mammifères, constitué principalement des grandes lèvres et des petites lèvres enserrant l’entrée du vagin, du clitoris et du méat urinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vulve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’anus est trop en avant, la partie supérieure de la vulve bascule horizontalement sur le bassin. Ce défaut de conformation ou le manque de tonus des lèvres vulvaires favorisent la pénétration permanente d'air dans le vagin (pneumovagin) entraînant vaginites (inflammation du vagin) et endométrites (inflammation de l'utérus).
L’appareil génital féminin comprend la vulve, le vagin, l’utérus, les trompes de Fallope et les ovaires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uvlve
- vluve
- vulev
- vullve
- vulvve
- vuvle
- vvulve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vulve - 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).