verchères
\vɛʁ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“verchères” is uncommon French (frequency #73,639 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,639
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de verchère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vercheres · verchères · French
verchères · rank #73,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,639
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vela
Nearest frequency peer: vela (-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 « verchères »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vecchia
vecchia
26,365 corpus weight
- veillerai
veillerai
26,364 corpus weight
- vela
vela
26,363 corpus weight
- verchères
verchères
26,362 corpus weight
- vidame
vidame
26,360 corpus weight
- Vinicius
Vinicius
26,359 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « verchères » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verchères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verchères » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verchères is uncommon French at frequency #73,639 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de verchère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for verchères, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is verchères, spelled V-E-R-C-H-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de verchère.
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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