vamos
\ˈba.mos\
The verdict
“vamos” is uncommon French (frequency #63,443 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,443
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-vamos · vamos · French
vamos · rank #63,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,443
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH variera
Nearest frequency peer: variera (+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 « vamos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ute
ute
36,562 corpus weight
- Valeri
Valeri
36,560 corpus weight
- vamos
vamos
36,558 corpus weight
- variera
variera
36,557 corpus weight
- Vendres
Vendres
36,556 corpus weight
- ventriloque
ventriloque
36,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vamos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vamos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈba.mos\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vamos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vamos is uncommon French at frequency #63,443 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈba.mos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vamos in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 vamos, spelled V-A-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).
- 2Impératif de la première personne du pluriel de ir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vamos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De pie, cantar que vamos a triunfar.
Vamos mujer, partamos a la ciudad.
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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