vermeille
\vɛʁ.mɛj\
The verdict
“vermeille” is uncommon French (frequency #61,219 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,219
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre précieuse, d’un rouge cramoisi et orangé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vermeille · vermeille · French
vermeille · rank #61,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,219
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vendais
Nearest frequency peer: vendais (-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 « vermeille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vaincrons
vaincrons
38,786 corpus weight
- vandale
vandale
38,785 corpus weight
- vendais
vendais
38,783 corpus weight
- vermeille
vermeille
38,782 corpus weight
- violenter
violenter
38,779 corpus weight
- Voigt
Voigt
38,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vermeille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vermeille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.mɛj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vermeille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vermeille is uncommon French at frequency #61,219 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.mɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pierre précieuse, d’un rouge cramoisi et orangé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for vermeille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vermeille, spelled V-E-R-M-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre précieuse, d’un rouge cramoisi et orangé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vermeille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] nous nous croyons fondés à réduire les vraies pierres précieuses aux variétés suivantes ; savoir, le rubis proprement dit ; le rubis-balais, le rubis spinelle, la vermeille, la topaze, le saphir et le gyrasol : ces pierres sont les seules qui n’offrent qu’une simple réfraction ; le balais n’est qu’un rubis d’un rouge plus clair, & le spinelle un rubis…
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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