vaine gloire
The verdict
“vaine gloire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désir d’obtenir de la considération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaine-gloire · vaine gloire · French
vaine gloire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | vaine gloire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaine gloire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaine gloire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désir d’obtenir de la considération.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vaine gloire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 vaine gloire, spelled V-A-I-N-E- -G-L-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Désir d’obtenir de la considération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaine gloire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai pas en effet, se disait-il, un orgueil naïf, extravasé, une élation, une superbe, s’affichant inconsciente, débordant devant tous ; non, j’ai, à l’état latent, ce qu’au Moyen Age l’on appelait ingénument la « vaine gloire », une essence d’orgueil diluée dans de la vanité et s’évaporant au dedans du moi, dans des pensées fugitives, dans des réflexi…
Personne ne sait, dit saint Augustin, que celui à qui l'amour de la vaine gloire a déclaré la guerre, combien elle est capable de nuire.
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.