Valhalla
\val.a.la\
The verdict
“Valhalla” is uncommon French (frequency #56,347 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,347
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au-delà de la mythologie nordique, où les Valkyries emmènent les âmes des guerriers les plus valeureux morts au combat pour que le dieu Odin les prépare à la bataille ultime du Ragnarök.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valhalla · Valhalla · French
Valhalla · rank #56,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,347
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vagabondage
Nearest frequency peer: vagabondage (-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 « Valhalla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- usurier
usurier
43,657 corpus weight
- vacher
vacher
43,656 corpus weight
- vagabondage
vagabondage
43,655 corpus weight
- Valhalla
Valhalla
43,654 corpus weight
- vannerie
vannerie
43,653 corpus weight
- vaporisateur
vaporisateur
43,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Valhalla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Valhalla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \val.a.la\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Valhalla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Valhalla is uncommon French at frequency #56,347 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \val.a.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Valhalla in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Valhalla, spelled V-A-L-H-A-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Au-delà de la mythologie nordique, où les Valkyries emmènent les âmes des guerriers les plus valeureux morts au combat pour que le dieu Odin les prépare à la bataille ultime du Ragnarök.
- 2Cratère d’impact multi-annulaire sur la surface de Callisto et le plus grand du système solaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Valhalla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Va ! Je bois l’hydromel dans la coupe des forts ; Le ciel du Valhalla fait resplendir mon glaive, Et la voix des vivants est odieuse aux morts.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).