valiant
\ˈvæljənt\
The verdict
“valiant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,300 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,300
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaillant, preux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valiant · valiant · French
valiant · rank #70,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,300
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vacherie
Nearest frequency peer: vacherie (-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 « valiant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vaccinal
vaccinal
29,704 corpus weight
- vaccinées
vaccinées
29,703 corpus weight
- vacherie
vacherie
29,702 corpus weight
- valiant
valiant
29,701 corpus weight
- valium
valium
29,700 corpus weight
- vanadium
vanadium
29,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « valiant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valiant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈvæljənt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valiant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valiant is uncommon French at frequency #70,300 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈvæljənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vaillant, preux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for valiant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 valiant, spelled V-A-L-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Vaillant, preux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valiant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was defeated by a valiant Gascon warrior.
She made a valiant effort to escape.
Synonyms
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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