vaseux
\va.zø\
The verdict
“vaseux” is uncommon French (frequency #50,570 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,570
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient de la vase ; qui a le caractère de la vase.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaseux · vaseux · French
vaseux · rank #50,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vasectomie
Nearest frequency peer: vasectomie (-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 « vaseux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vallières
Vallières
49,433 corpus weight
- vasectomie
vasectomie
49,432 corpus weight
- vaseux
vaseux
49,431 corpus weight
- vaudront
vaudront
49,430 corpus weight
- ventouses
ventouses
49,429 corpus weight
- vernaculaire
vernaculaire
49,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaseux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaseux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.zø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaseux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaseux is uncommon French at frequency #50,570 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \va.zø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vaseux in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vaseux, spelled V-A-S-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui contient de la vase ; qui a le caractère de la vase.
- 2Peu clair ; douteux.
- 3Malade, fébrile, pas dans son assiette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaseux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il nous a fallu d’abord attendre plusieurs heures sur la berge vaseuse, sous un soleil de plomb.
Quant aux autres navigateurs recherchés, il s'agit principalement de marins d’eau douce qui pratiquent sur la Vire et les autres rivières de cette zone - la Taute, la Douve - le transport de la tangue, prélevée dans cette zone vaseuse d'estuaires formant la baie des Veys, […].
Synonyms
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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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