ventôse
\vɑ̃.toz\
The verdict
“ventôse” is uncommon French (frequency #52,416 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,416
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sixième mois du calendrier républicain, commençant vers le 20 février.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ventose · ventôse · French
ventôse · rank #52,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,416
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vendéenne
Nearest frequency peer: vendéenne (-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 « ventôse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- varices
varices
47,589 corpus weight
- vaticane
vaticane
47,588 corpus weight
- vendéenne
vendéenne
47,586 corpus weight
- ventôse
ventôse
47,585 corpus weight
- vexant
vexant
47,583 corpus weight
- Viard
Viard
47,582 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ventôse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ventôse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.toz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ventôse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ventôse is uncommon French at frequency #52,416 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃.toz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sixième mois du calendrier républicain, commençant vers le 20 février.".
ventôse has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ventôse, spelled V-E-N-T-Ô-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sixième mois du calendrier républicain, commençant vers le 20 février.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ventôse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au regard des articles 5 à 11 de la loi du 21 ventôse an VII et des textes qui ont modifié ou complété ces articles, la conservation des registres du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel est assimilée à une conservation des hypothèques en ce qui concerne le cautionnement à fournir par le préposé.
C’est donc le 2 ventôse an V que « commença l’un des procès les plus extraordinaires de l’histoire » par son ampleur et sa portée. Les accusés étaient au nombre de soixante-quatre, dont dix-huit contumaces, […].
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).