Valentinois
The verdict
“Valentinois” is uncommon French (frequency #69,513 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,513
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valentinois · Valentinois · French
Valentinois · rank #69,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,513
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vacuum
Nearest frequency peer: vacuum (-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 « Valentinois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unilingues
unilingues
30,492 corpus weight
- Uppsala
Uppsala
30,491 corpus weight
- urique
urique
30,490 corpus weight
- vacuum
vacuum
30,489 corpus weight
- Valentinois
Valentinois
30,488 corpus weight
- veilleux
veilleux
30,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Valentinois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Valentinois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Valentinois is uncommon French at frequency #69,513 among 2,061 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Valentinois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louis II de Poitiers-Valentinois, comte de Valentinois et de Diois.
Le Valentinois est cette plaine alluviale s’étendant sur la rive gauche du Rhône moyen, formée par les basses vallées de deux cours d’eau se jetant dans ce fleuve, l’Isère au nord et la Drôme au sud.
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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