vétustes
\ve.tyst\
The verdict
“vétustes” is uncommon French (frequency #50,008 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,008
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vétuste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vetustes · vétustes · French
vétustes · rank #50,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,008
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vérifiables
Nearest frequency peer: vérifiables (-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 « vétustes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voiries
voiries
49,997 corpus weight
- voterait
voterait
49,996 corpus weight
- vroum
vroum
49,995 corpus weight
- vérifiables
vérifiables
49,994 corpus weight
- vétustes
vétustes
49,993 corpus weight
- ware
ware
49,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vétustes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vétustes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.tyst\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vétustes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vétustes is uncommon French at frequency #50,008 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ve.tyst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vétuste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vétustes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vétustes, spelled V-É-T-U-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vétuste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vétustes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des devis vont être également demandés à des entreprises afin de changer certains éléments vétustes de six appartements : les baignoires à remplacer par des douches à l’italienne, des lavabos, des éviers et la robinetterie.
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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