Valentinois
The verdict
“Valentinois” is uncommon French (frequency #69,513 among 148,117 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,513
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comté de Valentinois (créé en 879; devenu duché en 1498 au bénéfice de César Borgia). Il ne doit pas être confondu avec l'évêché-comté de Valence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Valentinois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Valentinois” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Valentinois is uncommon French at frequency #69,513 among 148,117 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Valentinois in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Valentinois, spelled V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Comté de Valentinois (créé en 879; devenu duché en 1498 au bénéfice de César Borgia). Il ne doit pas être confondu avec l'évêché-comté de Valence.
- 2Pays autour de Valence.
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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Using “Valentinois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.