vei
\βej\
The verdict
“vei” is uncommon French (frequency #98,621 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,621
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Regarde !
Corpus desk
Index FR-vei · vei · French
vei · rank #98,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,621
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH veen
Nearest frequency peer: veen (-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 « vei »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vaudraient
vaudraient
1,384 corpus weight
- vay
vay
1,383 corpus weight
- veen
veen
1,381 corpus weight
- vei
vei
1,380 corpus weight
- verbum
verbum
1,379 corpus weight
- verdes
verdes
1,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vei » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \βej\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #98,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vei » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vei is uncommon French at frequency #98,621 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \βej\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Regarde !".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vei, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 vei, spelled V-E-I.
Definition
- 1Regarde !
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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