Vésubie
\ve.zy.bi\
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
- vibro
vibro
36,552 corpus weight
- viennoiserie
viennoiserie
36,550 corpus weight
- voûtées
voûtées
36,549 corpus weight
- Vésubie
Vésubie
36,547 corpus weight
- warp
warp
36,545 corpus weight
- wilayas
wilayas
36,542 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vésubie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vésubie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ve.zy.bi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vésubie » en français
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
- 1Rivière du département des Alpes-Maritimes, affluent du Var ; vallée correspondant à cette rivière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vésubie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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