valvulaire

\val.vy.lɛʁ\

/\val.vy.lɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“valvulaire” is uncommon French (frequency #97,534 among 148,117 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#97,534
frequency rank, French
148,117
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relatif à la valvule.

Corpus desk

Index FR-valvulaire · valvulaire · French

valvulaire · rank #97,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #97,534
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 148,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH vant

Nearest frequency peer: vant (+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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “valvulaire”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “valvulaire” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of May 6, 2026
Key facts for valvulaire
PropertyValue
Headwordvalvulaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\val.vy.lɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#97,534
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “valvulaire” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). valvulaire lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

valvulaire is uncommon French at frequency #97,534 among 148,117 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \val.vy.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la valvule.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for valvulaire in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 valvulaire, spelled V-A-L-V-U-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à la valvule.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how valvulaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ainsi, il paraît logique d’anticoaguler les patients présentant une cardiopathie à haut risque de récidive embolique : prothèses valvulaires mécaniques, valvulopathies mitrales, infarctus du myocarde récent, cardiomyopathies dilatées, anévrysmes ventriculaires, fibrillation auriculaire non rhumatismale associée à un thrombus intracavitaire.
  2. Ils sont dus à l'existence d'une pathologie valvulaire orificielle par symphyse acquise ou congénitale des valves (rétrécissement orificiel aortique, pulmonaire, mitral ou tricuspidien), ou à une incontinence valvulaire par défaut de la coaptation des valves […].

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.

PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "valvulaire"?
"valvulaire" is spelled V-A-L-V-U-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \val.vy.lɛʁ\.
What does "valvulaire" mean?
As an adjective, "valvulaire" means: Relatif à la valvule.
How do you pronounce "valvulaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "valvulaire" is \val.vy.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "valvulaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list