Versaillais
\vɛʁ.sa.jɛ\
The verdict
“Versaillais” is uncommon French (frequency #55,673 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,673
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Versailles, commune française située dans le département des Yvelines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-versaillais · Versaillais · French
Versaillais · rank #55,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,673
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH venteux
Nearest frequency peer: venteux (-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 « Versaillais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vehicle
vehicle
44,331 corpus weight
- Venezia
Venezia
44,330 corpus weight
- venteux
venteux
44,329 corpus weight
- Versaillais
Versaillais
44,328 corpus weight
- vidéoludique
vidéoludique
44,327 corpus weight
- Violaine
Violaine
44,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Versaillais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Versaillais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.sa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Versaillais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Versaillais is uncommon French at frequency #55,673 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.sa.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Versaillais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Versaillais, spelled V-E-R-S-A-I-L-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Versailles, commune française située dans le département des Yvelines.
- 2Membre de la coalition politique qui réprima la Commune de Paris en 1871.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Versaillais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme faucheurs rasant un pré Comme on abat des pommes Les Versaillais ont massacré Pour le moins cent mille hommes Et les cent mille assassinats Voyez ce que ça rapporte.
Il prétendait ne pas connaître son âge mais il avait fait le coup de feu dans les rangs des Versaillais : pour lui, Paris, c’était toujours les communards.
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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