Vailland
\va.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“Vailland” is uncommon French (frequency #96,478 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,478
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Roger Vailland, écrivain français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vailland · Vailland · French
Vailland · rank #96,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,478
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vada
Nearest frequency peer: vada (-2 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 « Vailland »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vada
vada
3,525 corpus weight
- Vailland
Vailland
3,523 corpus weight
- vandaliser
vandaliser
3,521 corpus weight
- Varvara
Varvara
3,520 corpus weight
- Vaucresson
Vaucresson
3,519 corpus weight
- Vendômois
Vendômois
3,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vailland » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vailland |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \va.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vailland » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vailland is uncommon French at frequency #96,478 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \va.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Roger Vailland, écrivain français.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Vailland in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Vailland, spelled V-A-I-L-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Roger Vailland, écrivain français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vailland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vailland se plaisait à choquer et son physique même étonnait. Sa peau lisse était tendue à craquer sur un visage tout en profil : de face, on ne voyait qu’une pomme d’Adam. Son expression blasée démentait sa fraîcheur : on aurait dit un vieillard régénéré par un philtre diabolique.
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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