vantail
\vɑ̃.taj\
The verdict
“vantail” is uncommon French (frequency #95,434 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,434
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Battant d’une porte, d’une fenêtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vantail · vantail · French
vantail · rank #95,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vacillant
Nearest frequency peer: vacillant (-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 « vantail »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- usurpations
usurpations
4,570 corpus weight
- utilis
utilis
4,569 corpus weight
- vacillant
vacillant
4,568 corpus weight
- vantail
vantail
4,567 corpus weight
- vaseuse
vaseuse
4,566 corpus weight
- veillerait
veillerait
4,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vantail » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vantail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.taj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vantail » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vantail is uncommon French at frequency #95,434 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃.taj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Battant d’une porte, d’une fenêtre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for vantail in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vantail, spelled V-A-N-T-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Battant d’une porte, d’une fenêtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vantail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rufus sauta au sol et alla frapper aux lourds vantaux de bois cloutés de fer. – Ouvrez, le maître est là. Il y eu des exclamations, puis la porte s'ouvrit.
Derrière la herse était une porte épaisse à deux vantaux roulant sur des crapaudines inférieures et des pivots fixés dans un linteau de bois dont les scellements sont intacts.
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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