ventiler
\vɑ̃.ti.le\
The verdict
“ventiler” is uncommon French (frequency #54,989 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,989
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renouveler l’air à l’aide d’un ventilateur ou d'un autre moyen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ventiler · ventiler · French
ventiler · rank #54,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,989
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH venom
Nearest frequency peer: venom (-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 « ventiler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vabre
Vabre
45,015 corpus weight
- venom
venom
45,013 corpus weight
- ventiler
ventiler
45,012 corpus weight
- virtualisat…
virtualisation
45,011 corpus weight
- vittoria
vittoria
45,010 corpus weight
- voc
voc
45,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ventiler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ventiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.ti.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ventiler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ventiler is uncommon French at frequency #54,989 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɑ̃.ti.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ventiler in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ventiler, spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Renouveler l’air à l’aide d’un ventilateur ou d'un autre moyen.
- 2Respirer
- 3Répartir une somme totale entre les différents articles auxquels elle doit être affectée.
- 4Estimer, évaluer une ou plusieurs portions d’un tout vendu, non pas quant à la valeur réelle, mais relativement au prix total.
- 5Mitrailler quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 6Réguler
- 7Changer les idées, chasser les pensées fixes, nocives ou abrutissantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ventiler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ventiler la cale d’un navire.
Du coin de son tablier crasseux, elle s’en vint frotter quelques centimètres de ma table. Ce geste, en soulevant ses jupes, ventila ses ferments.
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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