verbeux
\vɛʁ.bø\
The verdict
“verbeux” is uncommon French (frequency #83,485 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,485
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’exprime en trop de mots.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verbeux · verbeux · French
verbeux · rank #83,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,485
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH ventoline
Nearest frequency peer: ventoline (-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 « verbeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- venimeuses
venimeuses
16,520 corpus weight
- venne
venne
16,519 corpus weight
- ventoline
ventoline
16,517 corpus weight
- verbeux
verbeux
16,516 corpus weight
- viatique
viatique
16,513 corpus weight
- victims
victims
16,512 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « verbeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.bø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verbeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verbeux is uncommon French at frequency #83,485 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛʁ.bø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for verbeux in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is verbeux, spelled V-E-R-B-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui s’exprime en trop de mots.
- 2Qui a pour défaut un excès de mots.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verbeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pauvre Alphonse ! il était si verbeux, si diffus, déjà si bon mari ! il répétait tant de fois la même chose ! il s’engageait de si bon cœur à ne s’occuper que de sa chère Lydie, à la conduire, à la suivre partout, à ne pas la quitter d’un instant, d’un seul instant !
La conversation se prolongea pendant quelque temps encore. Et comment, avec le verbeux maître Nick, en eût-il été autrement ?
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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