vertébré
\vɛʁ.te.bʁe\
The verdict
“vertébré” is uncommon French (frequency #97,542 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,542
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est membre du taxon des vertébrés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vertebre · vertébré · French
vertébré · rank #97,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH veules
Nearest frequency peer: veules (+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 « vertébré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- venta
venta
2,461 corpus weight
- vertébré
vertébré
2,459 corpus weight
- veules
veules
2,458 corpus weight
- volières
volières
2,456 corpus weight
- voye
voye
2,455 corpus weight
- VSL
VSL
2,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vertébré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vertébré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.te.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vertébré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vertébré is uncommon French at frequency #97,542 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛʁ.te.bʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est membre du taxon des vertébrés.".
vertébré doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 vertébré, spelled V-E-R-T-É-B-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est membre du taxon des vertébrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vertébré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le monde actuel se trouvent l’amphioxus, l’animal vertébré dont l’organisme est le plus imparfait, et les lamproies, qui occupent le dernier rang parmi les poissons.
Antonyms
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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