vaz

noun

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The verdict

“vaz” is uncommon French (frequency #64,158 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,158
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligament, attache.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vaz · vaz · French

vaz · rank #64,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,158
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vantaux

Nearest frequency peer: vantaux (-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 « vaz »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vaz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for vaz
PropertyValue
Headwordvaz
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#64,158
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « vaz » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.vaztombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « vantaux » (#64,157), « vania » (#64,156), « vieillie » (#64,160). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vaz » est au #64,158. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vaz is uncommon French at frequency #64,158 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ligament, attache.".

vaz doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 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 vaz, spelled V-A-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ligament, attache.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how vaz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vaz je součástí kloubů, kde spojuje jednotlivé kosti a brání jejich nadměrnému pohybování.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vaz"?
"vaz" is spelled V-A-Z.
What does "vaz" mean?
As a noun, "vaz" means: Ligament, attache.
What language does "vaz" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vaz", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vim#64,163trs#64,145wsh#64,178Yee#64,181

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list