verdine
\vɛʁ.din\
The verdict
“verdine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roulotte traditionnelle des tsiganes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verdine · verdine · French
verdine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verdine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.din\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verdine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verdine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roulotte traditionnelle des tsiganes.".
verdine has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is verdine, spelled V-E-R-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Roulotte traditionnelle des tsiganes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verdine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agnès ne meurt pas. Elle est délivrée par un brave bougre de caraque qui la garde pendant plusieurs jours dans sa verdine.
Le samedi matin […] nous allions cueillir des gouaches de Moindre ou des Fantômas à 65 centimes aux Puces de la porte de Vanves qui se tenaient sur la zone, là où passe aujourd’hui le périphérique : il a suffi de chasser les verdines des gitans qui s’abritaient sous le pont du Paris-Brest, et de faire pousser des tours sur l'herbe folle […] pour que nos s…
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