Vésubie

\ve.zy.bi\

/\ve.zy.bi\/ name

The verdict

“Vésubie” is uncommon French (frequency #63,454 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,454
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière du département des Alpes-Maritimes, affluent du Var ; vallée correspondant à cette rivière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vesubie · Vésubie · French

Vésubie · rank #63,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,454
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH voûtées

Nearest frequency peer: voûtées (-2 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 « Vésubie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vésubie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Vésubie
PropertyValue
HeadwordVésubie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ve.zy.bi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#63,454
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Vésubie » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Vésubietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « voûtées » (#63,452), « warp » (#63,456), « viennoiserie » (#63,451). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Vésubie » est au #63,454. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Vésubie is uncommon French at frequency #63,454 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ve.zy.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rivière du département des Alpes-Maritimes, affluent du Var ; vallée correspondant à cette rivière.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Vésubie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Vésubie, spelled V-É-S-U-B-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rivière du département des Alpes-Maritimes, affluent du Var ; vallée correspondant à cette rivière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Vésubie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et quel contraste, ô nature ! entre la paix, le silence qui règnent aux fraîches vallées de la Roya et de la Vésubie, sur les coteaux embaumés d’Ezza, aux sommets des blanches solitudes des Alpes, et la cohue bête, haletante, qui évolue, comme dans un cercle dantesque, autour des tapis verts de Monte-Carlo !

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vésubie"?
"Vésubie" is spelled V-É-S-U-B-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ve.zy.bi\.
What does "Vésubie" mean?
As a proper noun, "Vésubie" means: Rivière du département des Alpes-Maritimes, affluent du Var ; vallée correspondant à cette rivière.
How do you pronounce "Vésubie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vésubie" is \ve.zy.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Vésubie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list