vermouth
\vɛʁ.mut\
The verdict
“vermouth” is uncommon French (frequency #66,418 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,418
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin blanc dans lequel on a fait infuser des plantes amères, toniques et aromatiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vermouth · vermouth · French
vermouth · rank #66,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,418
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Veracruz
Nearest frequency peer: Veracruz (-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 « vermouth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- valor
valor
33,586 corpus weight
- vengée
vengée
33,585 corpus weight
- Veracruz
Veracruz
33,584 corpus weight
- vermouth
vermouth
33,583 corpus weight
- videurs
videurs
33,582 corpus weight
- VMA
VMA
33,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vermouth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vermouth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.mut\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vermouth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vermouth is uncommon French at frequency #66,418 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.mut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin blanc dans lequel on a fait infuser des plantes amères, toniques et aromatiques.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vermouth, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 vermouth, spelled V-E-R-M-O-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1Vin blanc dans lequel on a fait infuser des plantes amères, toniques et aromatiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vermouth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je leur dis : « Vous ne passerez pas devant chez nous sans prendre un joyeux vermouth. Il est rustique, mais pas trop mauvais. — Il ferait beau voir, — répliqua Vivier, — qu’on refusât un vermouth par un temps pareil ! »
– Elle n’a qu’à ne pas se marier ! Pour ce qu’elle épouse !… Un type qui sent le vermouth ! D’abord, elle a toujours vécu sans nous, elle n’a pas davantage besoin de nous pour se marier !
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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