vénerie
\vɛn.ʁi\
The verdict
“vénerie” is uncommon French (frequency #72,833 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,833
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de chasser au chien courant toutes sortes de bêtes, principalement les bêtes fauves.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venerie · vénerie · French
vénerie · rank #72,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,833
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voudrons
Nearest frequency peer: voudrons (-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 « vénerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- volumétrique
volumétrique
27,170 corpus weight
- voudrons
voudrons
27,169 corpus weight
- vénerie
vénerie
27,168 corpus weight
- Waterhouse
Waterhouse
27,167 corpus weight
- wenn
wenn
27,166 corpus weight
- Whittaker
Whittaker
27,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vénerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vénerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛn.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vénerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vénerie is uncommon French at frequency #72,833 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛn.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vénerie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vénerie, spelled V-É-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art de chasser au chien courant toutes sortes de bêtes, principalement les bêtes fauves.
- 2Tout ce qui concerne l’art de la vénerie.
- 3Corps des officiers qui étaient attachés à ce service chez le roi.
- 4Ensemble des divers services attachés aux équipages de chasse au chien courant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vénerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Traité de vénerie.
Prieur, ta fanfare du rappel a augmenté ta rançon de cinquante couronnes ; car tu as corrompu la simplicité et la vigueur des vieux sons de vénerie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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