versification
\vɛʁ.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“versification” is uncommon French (frequency #68,727 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,727
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de faire les vers ; manière de tourner les vers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-versification · versification · French
versification · rank #68,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,727
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH ventilés
Nearest frequency peer: ventilés (-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 « versification »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vanner
vanner
31,278 corpus weight
- vantée
vantée
31,277 corpus weight
- ventilés
ventilés
31,275 corpus weight
- versificati…
versification
31,274 corpus weight
- victimaire
victimaire
31,273 corpus weight
- Villar
Villar
31,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « versification » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | versification |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #68,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « versification » en français
Rare enough to double-check
versification is uncommon French at frequency #68,727 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Art de faire les vers ; manière de tourner les vers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for versification, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is versification, spelled V-E-R-S-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Art de faire les vers ; manière de tourner les vers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how versification appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et de fait ce trait qui est particulier à la physionomie de notre versification est d'autant plus important que, notre langue ne comportant pas de syllabes longues et brèves aussi tranchées que le latin, par exemple, la clausule du vers risquerait de passer parfois inaperçue.
Fixé relativement tardivement, utilisant un rythme bancal qu’on retrouvera dans le « swing », le blues dans les années 1910 acquiert la forme qu’on lui connaît aujourd’hui – 12 mesures et une versification de type AAB (deux interrogations répétées et une phrase conclusive) –, et se fonde notamment sur une gamme pentatonique qui intègre deux « blue notes »…
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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