vacuum
\va.kɥɔm\
The verdict
“vacuum” is uncommon French (frequency #69,512 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,512
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace sans matière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vacuum · vacuum · French
vacuum · rank #69,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,512
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH urique
Nearest frequency peer: urique (-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 « vacuum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unilingues
unilingues
30,492 corpus weight
- Uppsala
Uppsala
30,491 corpus weight
- urique
urique
30,490 corpus weight
- vacuum
vacuum
30,489 corpus weight
- Valentinois
Valentinois
30,488 corpus weight
- veilleux
veilleux
30,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vacuum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacuum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.kɥɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vacuum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vacuum is uncommon French at frequency #69,512 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.kɥɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espace sans matière.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vacuum in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vacuum, spelled V-A-C-U-U-M.
Definition
- 1Espace sans matière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vacuum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le « c’est l’antisémite qui crée le Juif » des Réflexions sartriennes ou encore « La condition réflexive de l’homme juif » de mon ami Robert Misrahi, qui s’échinait à générer l’identité juive dans un vacuum conceptuel, en prirent un rude coup avant même que le Kedmah n’eût levé l’ancre.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).