veule
\vøl\
The verdict
“veule” is uncommon French (frequency #57,010 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,010
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque d’énergie, de courage, d’entrain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veule · veule · French
veule · rank #57,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,010
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verbalisation
Nearest frequency peer: verbalisation (-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 « veule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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42,994 corpus weight
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42,993 corpus weight
- verbalisati…
verbalisation
42,992 corpus weight
- veule
veule
42,991 corpus weight
- victuailles
victuailles
42,990 corpus weight
- visqueuse
visqueuse
42,989 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vøl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veule is uncommon French at frequency #57,010 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vøl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
veule doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 veule, spelled V-E-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui manque d’énergie, de courage, d’entrain.
- 2Qualifie une terre trop légère pour la culture.
- 3Qualifie des branches longues et faibles.
- 4Qualifie des poils qui n'ont pas la possibilité de se feutrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how veule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était blême, sa moue haineuse et veule lui donnait un air de ressemblance avec sa sœur.
Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule !
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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