veiné
\ve.ne\
The verdict
“veiné” is uncommon French (frequency #87,239 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,239
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des veines, des marques sinueuses, en parlant du bois, du marbre et de quelques pierres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veine · veiné · French
veiné · rank #87,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,239
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vasa
Nearest frequency peer: vasa (-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 « veiné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vardon
vardon
12,765 corpus weight
- varieront
varieront
12,764 corpus weight
- vasa
vasa
12,763 corpus weight
- veiné
veiné
12,762 corpus weight
- velus
velus
12,761 corpus weight
- venteuse
venteuse
12,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veiné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veiné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veiné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veiné is uncommon French at frequency #87,239 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ve.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a des veines, des marques sinueuses, en parlant du bois, du marbre et de quelques pierres.".
Zero misspellings are on record for veiné in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is veiné, spelled V-E-I-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a des veines, des marques sinueuses, en parlant du bois, du marbre et de quelques pierres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how veiné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vieillard appartenait aux modèles affectionnés par les mâles pinceaux de Schnetz ; c’était un visage brun dont les rides nombreuses paraissaient rudes au toucher, un nez droit, des pommettes saillantes et veinées de rouge comme une vieille feuille de vigne, de contours anguleux, tous les caractères de la force, même là où la force avait disparu ; ses m…
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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