vendanger
\vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“vendanger” is uncommon French (frequency #79,834 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,834
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire la récolte des raisins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vendanger · vendanger · French
vendanger · rank #79,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,834
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vehicles
Nearest frequency peer: vehicles (-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 « vendanger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Urbino
Urbino
20,170 corpus weight
- vaisselles
vaisselles
20,169 corpus weight
- vehicles
vehicles
20,168 corpus weight
- vendanger
vendanger
20,167 corpus weight
- venimeuse
venimeuse
20,166 corpus weight
- Versini
Versini
20,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vendanger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vendanger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vendanger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vendanger is uncommon French at frequency #79,834 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɑ̃.dɑ̃.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vendanger in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vendanger, spelled V-E-N-D-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire la récolte des raisins.
- 2Récolter, obtenir en saisissant une opportunité.
- 3Faire la vendange.
- 4Manquer des occasions de marquer, particulièrement lorsqu'elles étaient nombreuses ou faciles à convertir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vendanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoique l’on vendangeât les clos, l’on n’entendait ni bruit ni babil. Les vignes semblaient inhabitées, tant le silence était profond. Nous allions comme des gens dont la douleur repousse des paroles banales, et nous écoutions le comte, le seul de nous qui parlât.
Les raisins vendangés vont d’abord subir l’égrappage (ou éraflage) qui consiste à égrener les grappes, de façon aujourd’hui mécanique, afin d’éliminer la rafle qui contient des tannins astringents et râpeux souvent indésirables.
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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