vacations
\va.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“vacations” is uncommon French (frequency #66,412 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,412
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vacation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vacations · vacations · French
vacations · rank #66,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,412
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH utilisiez
Nearest frequency peer: utilisiez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « vacations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- UNSS
UNSS
33,592 corpus weight
- utilisiez
utilisiez
33,590 corpus weight
- vacations
vacations
33,589 corpus weight
- valentinien
valentinien
33,588 corpus weight
- Valerio
Valerio
33,587 corpus weight
- valor
valor
33,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vacations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vacations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vacations is uncommon French at frequency #66,412 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vacation.".
vacations has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vacations, spelled V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vacation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vacations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceci se passa le 3 octobre ; le 9, autre ordre dudit sieur, qui ordonna à M. le premier président d’assembler la chambre des vacations le lendemain 10, pour les engager à se déconvoquer pour le 14 ;
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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