vaporeux
\va.pɔ.ʁø\
The verdict
“vaporeux” is uncommon French (frequency #77,132 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,132
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient ou semble contenir de la vapeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaporeux · vaporeux · French
vaporeux · rank #77,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,132
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vandalisés
Nearest frequency peer: vandalisés (-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 « vaporeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vaio
vaio
22,873 corpus weight
- vandalisées
vandalisées
22,871 corpus weight
- vandalisés
vandalisés
22,870 corpus weight
- vaporeux
vaporeux
22,869 corpus weight
- vareuse
vareuse
22,868 corpus weight
- varus
varus
22,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaporeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaporeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.pɔ.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaporeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaporeux is uncommon French at frequency #77,132 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \va.pɔ.ʁø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vaporeux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vaporeux, spelled V-A-P-O-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui contient ou semble contenir de la vapeur.
- 2Qui semble baigné de vapeur.
- 3Qui imite cette vapeur.
- 4Fin, léger, transparent.
- 5Confus comme dans un état second.
- 6Qui parait impalpable.
- 7Qui n’a pas de définition précise, qui est considéré comme flou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaporeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, sur le dernier plan, les vaporeuses collines de Belleville, chargées de maisons et de moulins, confondent leurs accidents avec ceux des nuages.
Comme Mattia n’avait jamais vu la mer, notre première promenade fut pour la jetée : pendant quelques minutes il resta les yeux perdus dans les profondeurs vaporeuses de l’horizon, puis, faisant claquer sa langue, il déclara que c’était laid, triste et sale.
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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