vault
\vɒlt\
The verdict
“vault” is uncommon French (frequency #56,350 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,350
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voûte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vault · vault · French
vault · rank #56,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,350
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaporisateur
Nearest frequency peer: vaporisateur (-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 « vault »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Valhalla
Valhalla
43,654 corpus weight
- vannerie
vannerie
43,653 corpus weight
- vaporisateur
vaporisateur
43,652 corpus weight
- vault
vault
43,651 corpus weight
- vector
vector
43,650 corpus weight
- verdoyante
verdoyante
43,649 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vault » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɒlt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vault » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vault is uncommon French at frequency #56,350 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɒlt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vault, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vault, spelled V-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Voûte.
- 2Chambre forte.
- 3W.-c., toilettes (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
- 4Fichier d’archive crypté.
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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