vaguer
\va.ɡe\
The verdict
“vaguer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Errer çà et là, aller de côté et d’autre à l’aventure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaguer · vaguer · French
vaguer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaguer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \va.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vaguer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 vaguer, spelled V-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Errer çà et là, aller de côté et d’autre à l’aventure.
- 2Errer sans plan ni structure, en parlant d'idées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme ricana le fou qui vague, chaque nuit, par la cité déserte, un œil à la lune et l'autre — crevé!
Point de chaises dans la grande nef ; à peine cinq ou six personnes à genoux, ou vaguant comme des ombres silencieuses.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.