vermines
\vɛʁ.min\
The verdict
“vermines” is uncommon French (frequency #58,340 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,340
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vermine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vermines · vermines · French
vermines · rank #58,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,340
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verreries
Nearest frequency peer: verreries (+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 « vermines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- verbatim
verbatim
41,664 corpus weight
- Vergara
Vergara
41,663 corpus weight
- vermines
vermines
41,661 corpus weight
- verreries
verreries
41,660 corpus weight
- vertueuses
vertueuses
41,659 corpus weight
- vicaires
vicaires
41,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vermines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vermines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.min\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vermines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vermines is uncommon French at frequency #58,340 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vermine.".
Zero misspellings are on record for vermines in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vermines, spelled V-E-R-M-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vermine.
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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