vagal
\va.ɡal\
The verdict
“vagal” is uncommon French (frequency #98,610 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,610
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au nerf vague. Le système nerveux parasympathique est parfois nommé système vagal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vagal · vagal · French
vagal · rank #98,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,610
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH valgus
Nearest frequency peer: valgus (+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 « vagal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- università
università
1,395 corpus weight
- Urd
Urd
1,394 corpus weight
- USSR
USSR
1,393 corpus weight
- vagal
vagal
1,391 corpus weight
- valgus
valgus
1,390 corpus weight
- Vallery
Vallery
1,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vagal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vagal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vagal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vagal is uncommon French at frequency #98,610 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \va.ɡal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au nerf vague. Le système nerveux parasympathique est parfois nommé système vagal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vagal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vagal, spelled V-A-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au nerf vague. Le système nerveux parasympathique est parfois nommé système vagal.
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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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