vaccine
\vak.sin\
The verdict
“vaccine” is uncommon French (frequency #51,199 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,199
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie propre à la vache et qu’on transmet à l’être humain au moyen de l’inoculation, pour le préserver de la variole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaccine · vaccine · French
vaccine · rank #51,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,199
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH usual
Nearest frequency peer: usual (-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 « vaccine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ULIS
ULIS
48,805 corpus weight
- Umtiti
Umtiti
48,804 corpus weight
- usual
usual
48,803 corpus weight
- vaccine
vaccine
48,802 corpus weight
- vaquer
vaquer
48,800 corpus weight
- Vermandois
Vermandois
48,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaccine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaccine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vak.sin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaccine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaccine is uncommon French at frequency #51,199 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vak.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vaccine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vaccine, spelled V-A-C-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie propre à la vache et qu’on transmet à l’être humain au moyen de l’inoculation, pour le préserver de la variole.
- 2Procédé employé pour opérer cette sorte d’inoculation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaccine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'aurais moins circonstancié mon rapport, si la malveillance, l'esprit d'opposition, ne s'étaient emparés de l'événement de Cliron pour troubler la sécurité des sujets vaccinés et détourner les parents de soumettre leurs enfants à la salutaire inoculation de la vaccine.
Edward Jenner, jeune médecin de campagne, a l’idée d’inoculer volontairement la vaccine, une infection bénigne qui se transmet à l’homme par l’intermédiaire des vaches, à un enfant.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).