valaisans
\va.lɛ.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“valaisans” is uncommon French (frequency #92,306 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,306
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de valaisan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valaisans · valaisans · French
valaisans · rank #92,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,306
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vassale
Nearest frequency peer: vassale (+3 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 « valaisans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unidimensio…
unidimensionnel
7,701 corpus weight
- uniform
uniform
7,700 corpus weight
- valaisans
valaisans
7,695 corpus weight
- vassale
vassale
7,692 corpus weight
- Vauvenargues
Vauvenargues
7,691 corpus weight
- venins
venins
7,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « valaisans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valaisans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.lɛ.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valaisans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valaisans is uncommon French at frequency #92,306 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \va.lɛ.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de valaisan.".
Zero misspellings are on record for valaisans in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 valaisans, spelled V-A-L-A-I-S-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de valaisan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how valaisans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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