vapoter
\va.pɔ.te\
The verdict
“vapoter” is uncommon French (frequency #53,052 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,052
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utiliser une cigarette électronique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vapoter · vapoter · French
vapoter · rank #53,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,052
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vanuatu
Nearest frequency peer: Vanuatu (-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 « vapoter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- umbrella
umbrella
46,953 corpus weight
- vals
vals
46,951 corpus weight
- Vanuatu
Vanuatu
46,950 corpus weight
- vapoter
vapoter
46,949 corpus weight
- vengeances
vengeances
46,947 corpus weight
- versait
versait
46,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vapoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vapoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.pɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vapoter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vapoter is uncommon French at frequency #53,052 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \va.pɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utiliser une cigarette électronique.".
vapoter has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 vapoter, spelled V-A-P-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Utiliser une cigarette électronique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vapoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vapoter dans les cafés, bars, restaurants et discothèques sera-t-il bientôt aussi strictement interdit que d’y fumer des « vraies » cigarettes ?
Tanja Rotfeld descend subitement de la voiture et vapote sa cigarette électronique.
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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