valor
The verdict
“valor” is uncommon French (frequency #66,415 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,415
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Valeur (mérite, valeur financière).
Corpus desk
Index FR-valor · valor · French
valor · rank #66,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,415
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Valerio
Nearest frequency peer: Valerio (-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 « valor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vacations
vacations
33,589 corpus weight
- valentinien
valentinien
33,588 corpus weight
- Valerio
Valerio
33,587 corpus weight
- valor
valor
33,586 corpus weight
- vengée
vengée
33,585 corpus weight
- Veracruz
Veracruz
33,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « valor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valor is uncommon French at frequency #66,415 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Valeur (mérite, valeur financière).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for valor, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 valor, spelled V-A-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Valeur (mérite, valeur financière).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how valor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une herbe de mout grant valour
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).