vanner
\va.ne\
The verdict
“vanner” is uncommon French (frequency #68,723 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,723
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nettoyer les grains au moyen d’un van ou en les lançant en l'air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vanner · vanner · French
vanner · rank #68,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,723
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vab
Nearest frequency peer: vab (-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 « vanner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ursus
ursus
31,282 corpus weight
- usuellement
usuellement
31,281 corpus weight
- vab
vab
31,279 corpus weight
- vanner
vanner
31,278 corpus weight
- vantée
vantée
31,277 corpus weight
- ventilés
ventilés
31,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vanner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vanner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vanner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vanner is uncommon French at frequency #68,723 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \va.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vanner in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 vanner, spelled V-A-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer les grains au moyen d’un van ou en les lançant en l'air.
- 2Épuiser, exténuer, claquer.
- 3Touiller avec une cuillère en bois ou agiter la casserole où se trouve une sauce en train de refroidir. L’objectif est d’éviter la formation d’une peau.
- 4Se moquer de quelqu’un.
- 5réciproque Se moquer mutuellement.
- 6S’enfuir, en parlant de personnes, ou d’un animal, par anthropomorphisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vanner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vanner du blé, de l’avoine, de l’orge.
[…] ces groupes de femmes sur les rochers à pic, prenant la direction de l’air et vannant le blé entre leurs mains levées, avec des gestes d’évocation.
This word in other languages
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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