Vaucouleurs
The verdict
“Vaucouleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #84,413 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,413
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Meuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaucouleurs · Vaucouleurs · French
Vaucouleurs · rank #84,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,413
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH varoise
Nearest frequency peer: varoise (-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 « Vaucouleurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- varan
varan
15,591 corpus weight
- varga
varga
15,590 corpus weight
- varoise
varoise
15,589 corpus weight
- Vaucouleurs
Vaucouleurs
15,588 corpus weight
- vauriens
vauriens
15,587 corpus weight
- Vauxhall
Vauxhall
15,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vaucouleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vaucouleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vaucouleurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vaucouleurs is uncommon French at frequency #84,413 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Vaucouleurs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Vaucouleurs, spelled V-A-U-C-O-U-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Meuse.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Meuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vaucouleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier soir quand nous sommes entrés dans ce pré fangeux du château de Vaucouleurs, comme un troupeau silencieux et mouillé, j’ai vu, tout perlés de pluie, les barbelés tendus comme un vaste piège et nous sommes entrés dedans comme une horde de gibiers dociles.
Ce ne fut que vers cinq heures de l’après-midi que les gendarmes de Poissy-le-Roy prévinrent leurs collègues de Vaucouleurs d’un massacre d’ovins survenu dans la nuit, à la bergerie des Chaumes.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).