vertex
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vertex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.tɛks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Sommet du crâne, de la tête.
- 2Partie supérieure de la tête de l’oiseau, ou calotte.
- 3Portion horizontale de la face des insectes, qui touche le front et située derrière les yeux.
- 4Point 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.
- 5Point de la sphère céleste vers lequel semble se diriger un ensemble d’étoiles.
- 6Point virtuel présent sur les diagrammes de Feynman où a lieu l’émission ou l’absorption d’une particule.
- 7Hauteur du point le plus élevé de la trajectoire d’un projectile.
- 8Point d’intersection entre deux ou plusieurs segments dans une construction 3D.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #78,042 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "vertex"?
What does "vertex" mean?
How do you pronounce "vertex"?
What language does "vertex" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: