venteux
\vɑ̃.tø\
The verdict
“venteux” is uncommon French (frequency #55,672 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,672
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sujet aux vents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venteux · venteux · French
venteux · rank #55,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,672
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Venezia
Nearest frequency peer: Venezia (-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 « venteux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vautrin
vautrin
44,332 corpus weight
- vehicle
vehicle
44,331 corpus weight
- Venezia
Venezia
44,330 corpus weight
- venteux
venteux
44,329 corpus weight
- Versaillais
Versaillais
44,328 corpus weight
- vidéoludique
vidéoludique
44,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « venteux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.tø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « venteux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
venteux is uncommon French at frequency #55,672 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɑ̃.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for venteux in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is venteux, spelled V-E-N-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est sujet aux vents.
- 2Qui cause des gaz (des "vents") dans le corps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how venteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette plage est très venteuse.
L’automne est une saison venteuse.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).