veilleurs
\vɛ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“veilleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #53,686 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,686
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de veilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veilleurs · veilleurs · French
veilleurs · rank #53,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,686
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vanguard
Nearest frequency peer: vanguard (-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 « veilleurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- validant
validant
46,318 corpus weight
- validez
validez
46,317 corpus weight
- vanguard
vanguard
46,316 corpus weight
- veilleurs
veilleurs
46,315 corpus weight
- vendront
vendront
46,314 corpus weight
- verriez
verriez
46,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veilleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veilleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veilleurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veilleurs is uncommon French at frequency #53,686 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛ.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de veilleur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for veilleurs, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is veilleurs, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de veilleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how veilleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Face aux tourmentes, aux vents d’Ouest venus du large, soutenue par les lierres géants qui se sont agriffés à ses millénaires murailles, que leurs trois mètres d’épaisseur ont accueillis et qui la font désormais éternelle, on se la figure un de ses farouches veilleurs des temps passés, gardiens du pays qui les entoure et prête à donner l’alarme si quelque…
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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