vaudevilles
\vɔd.vil\
The verdict
“vaudevilles” is uncommon French (frequency #73,635 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,635
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vaudeville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vaudevilles · vaudevilles · French
vaudevilles · rank #73,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,635
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vecchia
Nearest frequency peer: vecchia (+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 « vaudevilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- valaisan
valaisan
26,370 corpus weight
- vaudevilles
vaudevilles
26,366 corpus weight
- vecchia
vecchia
26,365 corpus weight
- veillerai
veillerai
26,364 corpus weight
- vela
vela
26,363 corpus weight
- verchères
verchères
26,362 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaudevilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaudevilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔd.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vaudevilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vaudevilles is uncommon French at frequency #73,635 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔd.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vaudeville.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vaudevilles, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 vaudevilles, spelled V-A-U-D-E-V-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vaudeville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vaudevilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ajoutez à ces divers produits neuf mille francs gagnés par les quarts, les tiers, les moitiés de vaudevilles à trois théâtres différents, et vous comprendrez qu’au physique, il fût gros, gras, rond et montrât une figure de bon propriétaire.
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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