vertigo
\vɛʁ.ti.ɡo\
The verdict
“vertigo” is uncommon French (frequency #50,574 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,574
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie des chevaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vertigo · vertigo · French
vertigo · rank #50,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,574
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vernaculaire
Nearest frequency peer: vernaculaire (-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 « vertigo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vaudront
vaudront
49,430 corpus weight
- ventouses
ventouses
49,429 corpus weight
- vernaculaire
vernaculaire
49,428 corpus weight
- vertigo
vertigo
49,427 corpus weight
- vicieuses
vicieuses
49,426 corpus weight
- virtue
virtue
49,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vertigo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vertigo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.ti.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vertigo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vertigo is uncommon French at frequency #50,574 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.ti.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vertigo in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 vertigo, spelled V-E-R-T-I-G-O.
Definition
- 1Maladie des chevaux.
- 2Caprice, fantaisie.
- 3Mollusque gastéropode, pulmoné, de la famille des pupidés.
- 4(Argot) Petite armoire décorative allemande à deux portes datant du XIXème siècle, différente par la forme d'un bonheur-du-jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vertigo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le guérisseur de Louvigny de Montigny était bien spécial: secourable aux gens et aux bêtes, il détournait aussi prestement une fluxion de poitrine qu’il soulageait les bestiaux de la gourme, des dartres laiteuses ou du vertigo.tait bien spécial:
Ce cheval a le vertigo.
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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