Vermeulen
\vəʁ.mø.lən\
The verdict
“Vermeulen” is uncommon French (frequency #77,139 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,139
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néerlandais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vermeulen · Vermeulen · French
Vermeulen · rank #77,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,139
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verification
Nearest frequency peer: verification (-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 « Vermeulen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vendirent
vendirent
22,865 corpus weight
- verification
verification
22,863 corpus weight
- Vermeulen
Vermeulen
22,862 corpus weight
- vibrato
vibrato
22,861 corpus weight
- Villefort
Villefort
22,860 corpus weight
- Vimont
Vimont
22,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vermeulen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vermeulen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vəʁ.mø.lən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vermeulen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vermeulen is uncommon French at frequency #77,139 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vəʁ.mø.lən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néerlandais.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Vermeulen, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Vermeulen, spelled V-E-R-M-E-U-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néerlandais.
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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