ventral
\vɑ̃.tʁal\
The verdict
“ventral” is uncommon French (frequency #61,972 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,972
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au ventre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ventral · ventral · French
ventral · rank #61,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,972
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vibes
Nearest frequency peer: vibes (+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 « ventral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vapotage
vapotage
38,032 corpus weight
- veda
veda
38,031 corpus weight
- ventral
ventral
38,029 corpus weight
- vibes
vibes
38,028 corpus weight
- visera
visera
38,027 corpus weight
- viserait
viserait
38,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ventral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ventral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.tʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ventral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ventral is uncommon French at frequency #61,972 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɑ̃.tʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ventral, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ventral, spelled V-E-N-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au ventre.
- 2Placé sur le ventre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ventral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une observation attentive de sa face ventrale vous permettra de distinguer des nerfs qui sortent de l’encéphale, les douze paires de nerfs crâniens.
Nageoires ventrales.
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Antonyms
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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