verdoyant
\vɛʁ.dwa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“verdoyant” is uncommon French (frequency #54,321 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,321
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui verdoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verdoyant · verdoyant · French
verdoyant · rank #54,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,321
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vanoise
Nearest frequency peer: Vanoise (-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 « verdoyant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- valkyrie
valkyrie
45,683 corpus weight
- vandal
vandal
45,682 corpus weight
- Vanoise
Vanoise
45,681 corpus weight
- verdoyant
verdoyant
45,680 corpus weight
- victim
victim
45,678 corpus weight
- Vogt
Vogt
45,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « verdoyant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verdoyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.dwa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verdoyant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verdoyant is uncommon French at frequency #54,321 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛʁ.dwa.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
verdoyant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is verdoyant, spelled V-E-R-D-O-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui verdoie.
- 2Qui concerne Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, municipalité de paroisse québécoise ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verdoyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cette époque de la saison chaude, tous ces arbres étaient verdoyants, et ils étonnaient un peu le regard, habitué aux profils âpres et nus des paysages polaires.
Ça et là des îles verdoyantes se succèdent dans l’étendue des eaux, comme les chatons d’un collier.
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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