valaisan
\va.lɛ.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“valaisan” is uncommon French (frequency #73,631 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,631
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Du Valais, canton suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valaisan · valaisan · French
valaisan · rank #73,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,631
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Utica
Nearest frequency peer: Utica (-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 « valaisan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- uruguayens
uruguayens
26,375 corpus weight
- Ussel
Ussel
26,373 corpus weight
- usurpée
usurpée
26,372 corpus weight
- Utica
Utica
26,371 corpus weight
- valaisan
valaisan
26,370 corpus weight
- vaudevilles
vaudevilles
26,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « valaisan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valaisan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.lɛ.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valaisan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valaisan is uncommon French at frequency #73,631 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \va.lɛ.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Du Valais, canton suisse.".
valaisan 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is valaisan, spelled V-A-L-A-I-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1Du Valais, canton suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valaisan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moi je crois que vous sur-greffez et c’est une chose à voir — comme de savoir distinguer un artisan d’un artiste et de ne pas trop vous attendrir sur telle « vieille petite ville vaudoise » si vous souffrez de me voir m’attendrir sur telle vieille ville valaisanne.
À droite et à gauche du fleuve, et de demi-lieue en demi-lieue, de jolis villages vaudois et valaisans paraissaient et disparaissaient presque aussitôt, sans que la rapidité de notre course nous permît d’en voir autre chose que la hardiesse de leur situation sur la pente de la montagne : […] .
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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