vent arrière
\vɑ̃ a.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“vent arrière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent qui porte directement le navire vers le point où l’on veut aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vent-arriere · vent arrière · French
vent arrière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vent arrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃ a.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vent arrière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vent arrière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃ a.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vent qui porte directement le navire vers le point où l’on veut aller.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vent arrière in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vent arrière, spelled V-E-N-T- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Vent qui porte directement le navire vers le point où l’on veut aller.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.