verbum
The verdict
“verbum” is uncommon French (frequency #98,622 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,622
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verbum · verbum · French
verbum · rank #98,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,622
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vei
Nearest frequency peer: vei (-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 « verbum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vay
vay
1,383 corpus weight
- veen
veen
1,381 corpus weight
- vei
vei
1,380 corpus weight
- verbum
verbum
1,379 corpus weight
- verdes
verdes
1,378 corpus weight
- verseront
verseront
1,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « verbum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verbum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verbum is uncommon French at frequency #98,622 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
verbum has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is verbum, spelled V-E-R-B-U-M.
Definition
- 1Mot.
- 2Parole, fait de parler.
- 3Dominus dabit verbum evangelizantibus — (Le Psautier de Winchester, f. 78v. Il est traduit dans l’ancien français en face par parole)
- 4(Au pluriel) Serment, parole.
- 5Verbe (dans le sens "parole"), calque du grec ecclésiastique Λόγος, logos (« Verbe, Christ, Dieu fait homme »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verbum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ad verbum, in verbum, verbum pro verbe
verbum voluptatis
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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