vernir
[vɛʁ.niʁ]
The verdict
“vernir” is uncommon French (frequency #96,485 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,485
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enduire de vernis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vernir · vernir · French
vernir · rank #96,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,485
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vigies
Nearest frequency peer: vigies (+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 « vernir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vaucresson
Vaucresson
3,519 corpus weight
- Vendômois
Vendômois
3,518 corpus weight
- vernir
vernir
3,516 corpus weight
- vigies
vigies
3,515 corpus weight
- vilipender
vilipender
3,514 corpus weight
- vindicatifs
vindicatifs
3,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vernir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vernir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vɛʁ.niʁ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vernir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vernir is uncommon French at frequency #96,485 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [vɛʁ.niʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enduire de vernis.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vernir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vernir, spelled V-E-R-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Enduire de vernis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vernir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces portraits, quoique peints à l’huile, ont un aspect de pastel et de détrempe qui vient de ce qu’on ne vernit pas les tableaux en Espagne, manque de précaution qui a laissé dévorer par l’humidité bien des chefs-d’œuvre regrettables.
Le vernissage, qui dans l'ébénisterie a pour but de donner d'abord et de conserver ensuite aux placages tout le brillant dont ils sont susceptibles, s'effectue en étendant sur la surface qu'on veut vernir une couche mince d'un liquide transparent, qui, après dessiccation ou évaporation, communique à cette surface un éclat vitreux très remarquable.
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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