vautrin
\vo.tʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“vautrin” is uncommon French (frequency #55,669 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,669
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom régional du sanglier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vautrin · vautrin · French
vautrin · rank #55,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,669
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vautrer
Nearest frequency peer: vautrer (-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 « vautrin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- utilités
utilités
44,335 corpus weight
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Vaise
44,334 corpus weight
- vautrer
vautrer
44,333 corpus weight
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vautrin
44,332 corpus weight
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vehicle
44,331 corpus weight
- Venezia
Venezia
44,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vautrin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vautrin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vo.tʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vautrin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vautrin is uncommon French at frequency #55,669 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vo.tʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom régional du sanglier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vautrin, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vautrin, spelled V-A-U-T-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom régional du sanglier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vautrin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus tard, ses camarades de jeu le surnommeront " Vautrin " (sanglier) - sobriquet sous lequel, grâce à Balzac, François Vidocq passera à la postérité littéraire.
Mais [Jean Herman] sent surtout ses origines alsaciennes-lorraines. Elles l’ont inspiré pour choisir son pseudonyme d’écrivain : « Le vautrin, c’est le sanglier ».
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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