vaca
\va.ka\
The verdict
“vaca” is uncommon French (frequency #74,454 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,454
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pirogue à balancier utilisée dans les îles Tonga, elle possède une voile triangulaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaca · vaca · French
vaca · rank #74,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,454
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vacataires
Nearest frequency peer: vacataires (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vaca”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- unien
unien
25,550 corpus weight
- usitée
usitée
25,549 corpus weight
- vaca
vaca
25,547 corpus weight
- vacataires
vacataires
25,546 corpus weight
- variaient
variaient
25,544 corpus weight
- vascularisa…
vascularisation
25,543 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vaca” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “vaca” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
vaca is uncommon French at frequency #74,454 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pirogue à balancier utilisée dans les îles Tonga, elle possède une voile triangulaire.".
vaca has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vaca, spelled V-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1Pirogue à balancier utilisée dans les îles Tonga, elle possède une voile triangulaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vaca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leurs pirogues ou vacas sont basses, accouplées, portant un pont pour contenir plus de 100 personnes.
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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