vals
\val\
The verdict
“vals” is uncommon French (frequency #53,050 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,050
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de val.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vals · vals · French
vals · rank #53,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,050
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vanuatu
Nearest frequency peer: Vanuatu (+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 « vals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ubuesque
ubuesque
46,955 corpus weight
- ugly
ugly
46,954 corpus weight
- umbrella
umbrella
46,953 corpus weight
- vals
vals
46,951 corpus weight
- Vanuatu
Vanuatu
46,950 corpus weight
- vapoter
vapoter
46,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \val\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vals is uncommon French at frequency #53,050 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \val\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de val.".
vals has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 vals, spelled V-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de val.
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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