vagabondage
\va.ɡa.bɔ̃.daʒ\
The verdict
“vagabondage” is uncommon French (frequency #56,346 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,346
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État social du vagabond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vagabondage · vagabondage · French
vagabondage · rank #56,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,346
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vacher
Nearest frequency peer: vacher (-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 « vagabondage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- uppercut
uppercut
43,658 corpus weight
- usurier
usurier
43,657 corpus weight
- vacher
vacher
43,656 corpus weight
- vagabondage
vagabondage
43,655 corpus weight
- Valhalla
Valhalla
43,654 corpus weight
- vannerie
vannerie
43,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vagabondage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vagabondage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ɡa.bɔ̃.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vagabondage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vagabondage is uncommon French at frequency #56,346 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ɡa.bɔ̃.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vagabondage, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vagabondage, spelled V-A-G-A-B-O-N-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1État social du vagabond.
- 2Fait de vagabonder, promenade au hasard.
- 3Délit de toute personne qui n’a ni domicile certain ni moyens de subsistance et qui n’exerce habituellement ni métier ni profession.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vagabondage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faites exécuter vos lois contre le vagabondage; complétez-les, si elles sont imparfaites; créez-en , si vous n’en avez pas.
Le vagabondage , que l'auteur appelle ailleurs un moyen de rendre la mendicité plus fructueuse , et qu'il signale comme une conséquence de la perversité autant que de l'indigence, le vagabondage est à son tour l'objet de ses prévisions.
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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