veilleux
\vɛ.jø\
The verdict
“veilleux” is uncommon French (frequency #69,515 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,515
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quelqu’un qui participe à une veillée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veilleux · veilleux · French
veilleux · rank #69,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,515
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Valentinois
Nearest frequency peer: Valentinois (-2 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 « veilleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- urique
urique
30,490 corpus weight
- vacuum
vacuum
30,489 corpus weight
- Valentinois
Valentinois
30,488 corpus weight
- veilleux
veilleux
30,486 corpus weight
- veneur
veneur
30,484 corpus weight
- venter
venter
30,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veilleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veilleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ.jø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veilleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veilleux is uncommon French at frequency #69,515 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛ.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quelqu’un qui participe à une veillée.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for veilleux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is veilleux, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Quelqu’un qui participe à une veillée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how veilleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Un veilleux, dit la mère Chapdelaine. C’est Eutrope Gagnon qui vient nous voir.
On l’appelait « le Veilleux », c’est-à-dire le « veilleur », le « gardeur », ainsi que Camille avait fini par le comprendre, et elle ne savait pas son nom véritable.
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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