vertex

/\vɛʁ.tɛks\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#78,042

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

vertex is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sommet du crâne, de la tête. Pronounced \vɛʁ.tɛks\.

Key facts for vertex
PropertyValue
Headwordvertex
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɛʁ.tɛks\
Letters6
Frequency rank#78,042
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vertex in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vertex is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ.tɛks\. Corpus data places it at rank #78,042 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vertex in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is vertex, spelled V-E-R-T-E-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sommet du crâne, de la tête.
  2. 2
    Partie supérieure de la tête de l’oiseau, ou calotte.
  3. 3
    Portion horizontale de la face des insectes, qui touche le front et située derrière les yeux.
  4. 4
    Point de latitude maximale ou minimale d'une orthodromie tracée sur une surface de révolution. En ce point, et en projection sphérique, l'orthodromie croise à angles droits le méridien.
  5. 5
    Point de la sphère céleste vers lequel semble se diriger un ensemble d’étoiles.
  6. 6
    Point virtuel présent sur les diagrammes de Feynman où a lieu l’émission ou l’absorption d’une particule.
  7. 7
    Hauteur du point le plus élevé de la trajectoire d’un projectile.
  8. 8
    Point d’intersection entre deux ou plusieurs segments dans une construction 3D.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #78,042 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vertex"?
"vertex" is spelled V-E-R-T-E-X. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛʁ.tɛks\.
What does "vertex" mean?
As a noun, "vertex" means: Sommet du crâne, de la tête.
How do you pronounce "vertex"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vertex" is \vɛʁ.tɛks\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vertex" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.