Valensole
The verdict
“Valensole” is uncommon French (frequency #94,363 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,363
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valensole · Valensole · French
Valensole · rank #94,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,363
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH usually
Nearest frequency peer: usually (-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 « Valensole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Uranie
Uranie
5,641 corpus weight
- uru
uru
5,640 corpus weight
- usually
usually
5,639 corpus weight
- Valensole
Valensole
5,638 corpus weight
- Valençay
Valençay
5,637 corpus weight
- valo
valo
5,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Valensole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Valensole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Valensole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Valensole is uncommon French at frequency #94,363 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Valensole has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Valensole, spelled V-A-L-E-N-S-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Valensole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait comme une barrière de fumée du côté de Valensole et ça, ça voulait dire de la pluie.
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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