verdet
\vɛʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“verdet” is uncommon French (frequency #99,738 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,738
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De couleur verdet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verdet · verdet · French
verdet · rank #99,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,738
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vefa
Nearest frequency peer: Vefa (-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 « verdet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- valuable
valuable
265 corpus weight
- Vefa
Vefa
264 corpus weight
- verdet
verdet
263 corpus weight
- verdures
verdures
262 corpus weight
- vergnes
vergnes
261 corpus weight
- vesna
vesna
259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « verdet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verdet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verdet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verdet is uncommon French at frequency #99,738 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛʁ.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De couleur verdet.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for verdet, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is verdet, spelled V-E-R-D-E-T.
Definition
- 1De couleur verdet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verdet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dalles étaient propres et lavées et, près de l'évier, dans une grosse raie qui avait fendu les pierres et d'où on avait jour sur la terre noire, une herbe verdette avait monté qui portait sa grosse tête de graine […].
Ils planèrent au-dessus de brèches disputées aux chlorites par le mica noir. Enchantement infini d’un monde verdet.
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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