vaquer
\va.ke\
The verdict
“vaquer” is uncommon French (frequency #51,201 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,201
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être vacant, ne pas être occupé, ne pas être rempli ; en parlant proprement des emplois, des charges, des dignités, des bénéfices, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaquer · vaquer · French
vaquer · rank #51,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,201
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaccine
Nearest frequency peer: vaccine (-2 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 « vaquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Umtiti
Umtiti
48,804 corpus weight
- usual
usual
48,803 corpus weight
- vaccine
vaccine
48,802 corpus weight
- vaquer
vaquer
48,800 corpus weight
- Vermandois
Vermandois
48,798 corpus weight
- verrue
verrue
48,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaquer is uncommon French at frequency #51,201 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \va.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vaquer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vaquer, spelled V-A-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être vacant, ne pas être occupé, ne pas être rempli ; en parlant proprement des emplois, des charges, des dignités, des bénéfices, etc.
- 2Cesser, dans les tribunaux, les fonctions ordinaires, pendant quelque temps.
- 3S’occuper de quelque chose. — Note d’usage : Il est alors suivi de la préposition à. → voir vaquer à
- 4Aller et venir, déambuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pape étant mort, le Saint-Siège vaqua pendant plus de trois ans. — Cette charge vaque par la mort de celui qui en était pourvu.
Oyant quoi, M. de Rosny, à qui le roi avait jà laissé entrevoir qu’il songeait à le nommer grand maître de son artillerie, dès que le poste vaquerait, se leva avec promptitude et, sans dire mot ni miette, s’en fut.
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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