vergeture
\vɛʁ.ʒə.tyʁ\
The verdict
“vergeture” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque sur la peau, produite par un coup de baguette ou analogue à celle que produit un coup de baguette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vergeture · vergeture · French
vergeture · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | vergeture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.ʒə.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vergeture is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.ʒə.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vergeture has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 vergeture, spelled V-E-R-G-E-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Marque sur la peau, produite par un coup de baguette ou analogue à celle que produit un coup de baguette.
- 2Marque sur la peau liée à un étirement de celle-ci, qui peut être dû la prise de poids, la grossesse ou encore la prise de masse musculaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vergeture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur son ventre, j’ai caressé les vergetures qui dataient de l’époque où elle était enceinte de Jamie.
Rouge, lézardé de vergetures plus claires, ce nez paraissait faux, comme un colombin de pâte à modeler grossièrement collé au milieu de la figure, entre un trait de sourcils et un rectangle de moustache qui auraient pu être dessinés au crayon gras par un maquilleur de foire.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.