vehicle
\ˈvi.ə.kl̩\
The verdict
“vehicle” is uncommon French (frequency #55,670 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,670
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vehicle · vehicle · French
vehicle · rank #55,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,670
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vautrin
Nearest frequency peer: vautrin (-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 « vehicle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vaise
Vaise
44,334 corpus weight
- vautrer
vautrer
44,333 corpus weight
- vautrin
vautrin
44,332 corpus weight
- vehicle
vehicle
44,331 corpus weight
- Venezia
Venezia
44,330 corpus weight
- venteux
venteux
44,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vehicle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vehicle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈvi.ə.kl̩\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vehicle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vehicle is uncommon French at frequency #55,670 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈvi.ə.kl̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Véhicule.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vehicle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vehicle, spelled V-E-H-I-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Véhicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vehicle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 2000 the army acquired six vehicles for testing a new self-propelled rocket-launcher eventually designated the M142 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).