valgus
The verdict
“valgus” is uncommon French (frequency #98,611 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,611
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est dévié vers l’extérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valgus · valgus · French
valgus · rank #98,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,611
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vagal
Nearest frequency peer: vagal (-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 « valgus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Urd
Urd
1,394 corpus weight
- USSR
USSR
1,393 corpus weight
- vagal
vagal
1,391 corpus weight
- valgus
valgus
1,390 corpus weight
- Vallery
Vallery
1,389 corpus weight
- Vannetais
Vannetais
1,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « valgus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valgus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valgus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valgus is uncommon French at frequency #98,611 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est dévié vers l’extérieur.".
valgus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is valgus, spelled V-A-L-G-U-S.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est dévié vers l’extérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how valgus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
pied bot valgus, hallux valgus.
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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