vénalité
\ve.na.li.te\
The verdict
“vénalité” is uncommon French (frequency #90,302 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,302
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est vénal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venalite · vénalité · French
vénalité · rank #90,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,302
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voyageuses
Nearest frequency peer: voyageuses (-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 « vénalité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vinokourov
Vinokourov
9,704 corpus weight
- vivarium
vivarium
9,702 corpus weight
- voyageuses
voyageuses
9,701 corpus weight
- vénalité
vénalité
9,699 corpus weight
- waifu
waifu
9,697 corpus weight
- wakeboard
wakeboard
9,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vénalité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vénalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.na.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vénalité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vénalité is uncommon French at frequency #90,302 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ve.na.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est vénal.".
vénalité has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vénalité, spelled V-É-N-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est vénal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vénalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des abus, dit un autre convive, il n’y en a pas de plus crians que la vénalité des charges.
On attend encore un nombre suffisant de républicains hardis qui oseront dénoncer la turpitude et la vénalité de la présidence actuelle.
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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