vanités
\va.ni.te\
The verdict
“vanités” is uncommon French (frequency #51,802 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,802
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vanité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vanites · vanités · French
vanités · rank #51,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,802
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vat
Nearest frequency peer: vat (+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 « vanités »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- utilisatrice
utilisatrice
48,203 corpus weight
- vac
vac
48,202 corpus weight
- vaginales
vaginales
48,201 corpus weight
- vanités
vanités
48,199 corpus weight
- vat
vat
48,198 corpus weight
- venturi
venturi
48,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vanités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vanités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vanités » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vanités is uncommon French at frequency #51,802 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ni.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vanité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vanités, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vanités, spelled V-A-N-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vanité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vanités appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La morgue de la noblesse de cour désaffectionna du trône la noblesse de province, autant que celle-ci désaffectionnait la bourgeoisie en en froissant toutes les vanités.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).