verbatim
\vɛʁ.ba.tim\
The verdict
“verbatim” is uncommon French (frequency #58,337 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,337
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transcription fidèle d’une déclaration orale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verbatim · verbatim · French
verbatim · rank #58,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,337
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH veni
Nearest frequency peer: veni (-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 « verbatim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- varna
varna
41,667 corpus weight
- vectorielle
vectorielle
41,666 corpus weight
- veni
veni
41,665 corpus weight
- verbatim
verbatim
41,664 corpus weight
- Vergara
Vergara
41,663 corpus weight
- vermines
vermines
41,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « verbatim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbatim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.ba.tim\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verbatim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verbatim is uncommon French at frequency #58,337 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.ba.tim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
verbatim doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is verbatim, spelled V-E-R-B-A-T-I-M.
Definition
- 1Transcription fidèle d’une déclaration orale.
- 2Ensemble des mots et phrases employés par une population lors d’une enquête ou lors de messages spontanés (courriel, lettre, téléphone…) adressés à une entreprise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verbatim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est à la lettre près qu’elle reproduit à partir de l’ouvrage de Cuniot le verbatim d’une entrevue-débat qui eut lieu à la télévision française le 10 juin 1988 entre elle-même et l’astronome Dominique Ballereau.
Il filtrait les visiteurs, les interrogeait à la sortie et notait les verbatim.
Synonyms
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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