VBA
\ve.be.a\
The verdict
“VBA” is uncommon French (frequency #78,038 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,038
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langage de script dérivé de Visual Basic et intégré à la plupart des logiciels Microsoft.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vba · VBA · French
VBA · rank #78,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,038
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vavasseur
Nearest frequency peer: vavasseur (-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 « VBA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Verhaeren
Verhaeren
21,960 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « VBA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | VBA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ve.be.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « VBA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
VBA is uncommon French at frequency #78,038 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ve.be.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langage de script dérivé de Visual Basic et intégré à la plupart des logiciels Microsoft.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for VBA, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is VBA, spelled V-B-A.
Definition
- 1Langage de script dérivé de Visual Basic et intégré à la plupart des logiciels Microsoft.
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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