vaincues
\vɛ̃.ky\
The verdict
“vaincues” is uncommon French (frequency #61,966 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,966
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de vaincu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaincues · vaincues · French
vaincues · rank #61,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vade
Nearest frequency peer: vade (-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 « vaincues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- urinoir
urinoir
38,038 corpus weight
- utopiques
utopiques
38,037 corpus weight
- vade
vade
38,036 corpus weight
- vaincues
vaincues
38,035 corpus weight
- Valencienno…
Valenciennois
38,034 corpus weight
- valses
valses
38,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaincues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaincues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛ̃.ky\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaincues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaincues is uncommon French at frequency #61,966 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛ̃.ky\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de vaincu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vaincues in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 vaincues, spelled V-A-I-N-C-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de vaincu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vaincues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une des plus sombres et des plus pessimistes tragédies, Hécube, illustre les conséquences d’une guerre sanglante qui pèsent sur la vie des populations vaincues.
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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