Vesle
\vɛl\
The verdict
“Vesle” is uncommon French (frequency #89,295 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,295
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière française, affluent de l’Aisne au niveau de Condé-sur-Aisne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vesle · Vesle · French
Vesle · rank #89,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,295
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vicious
Nearest frequency peer: vicious (+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 « Vesle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- verdissement
verdissement
10,710 corpus weight
- vernissages
vernissages
10,708 corpus weight
- Vesle
Vesle
10,706 corpus weight
- vicious
vicious
10,705 corpus weight
- visiteront
visiteront
10,703 corpus weight
- viste
viste
10,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vesle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vesle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vesle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vesle is uncommon French at frequency #89,295 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rivière française, affluent de l’Aisne au niveau de Condé-sur-Aisne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Vesle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Vesle, spelled V-E-S-L-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière française, affluent de l’Aisne au niveau de Condé-sur-Aisne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vesle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autre découverte majeure : une série de 1 000 pieux en chêne, fichés dans les limons de la Vesle, qui servaient de fondation à un imposant bâtiment auquel on accédait depuis la rivière et l’intérieur de la ville
Sur les plateaux au sud de la fenêtre d’étude notamment, entre les gîtes potentiels de matière première, autour de Romigny et Lhéry, et les vallées de l’Ardre et de la Vesle, ces zones-test permettraient peut-être de mettre en évidence les potentiels sites inclus dans le système d’approvisionnement en silex bartonien.
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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