vavasseur
\va.va.sœʁ\
The verdict
“vavasseur” is uncommon French (frequency #78,037 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,037
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vassal d’un vassal, arrière-vassal. → voir vavassal
Corpus desk
Index FR-vavasseur · vavasseur · French
vavasseur · rank #78,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,037
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vautier
Nearest frequency peer: Vautier (-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 « vavasseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vantage
vantage
21,968 corpus weight
- Vautier
Vautier
21,965 corpus weight
- vavasseur
vavasseur
21,964 corpus weight
- VBA
VBA
21,963 corpus weight
- vendrais
vendrais
21,962 corpus weight
- venet
venet
21,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vavasseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vavasseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.va.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vavasseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vavasseur is uncommon French at frequency #78,037 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.va.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vassal d’un vassal, arrière-vassal. → voir vavassal".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vavasseur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vavasseur, spelled V-A-V-A-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Vassal d’un vassal, arrière-vassal. → voir vavassal
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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