Vulgate
/ˈvʌlɡeɪt/
"vulgate" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Vulgate” is uncommon English (frequency #59,112 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,112
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vulgate · Vulgate · English
Vulgate · rank #59,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,112
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH voyeurism
Nearest frequency peer: voyeurism (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Vulgate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- voyeurism
voyeurism
40,890 corpus weight
- Vulgate
Vulgate
40,889 corpus weight
- wafting
wafting
40,887 corpus weight
- wagoner
wagoner
40,886 corpus weight
- wan't
wan't
40,884 corpus weight
- wargaming
wargaming
40,883 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Vulgate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vulgate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈvʌlɡeɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Vulgate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Vulgate is uncommon English at frequency #59,112 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈvʌlɡeɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Vulgate in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Vulgāta. The correct English form is Vulgate, spelled V-U-L-G-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Vulgāta.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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