Vézère
\ve.zɛʁ\
The verdict
“Vézère” is uncommon French (frequency #76,230 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,230
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière des départements de la Corrèze et du Périgord, affluent de la Dordogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vezere · Vézère · French
Vézère · rank #76,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,230
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vénéneuse
Nearest frequency peer: vénéneuse (-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 « Vézère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- védique
védique
23,774 corpus weight
- véganes
véganes
23,773 corpus weight
- vénéneuse
vénéneuse
23,772 corpus weight
- Vézère
Vézère
23,771 corpus weight
- webinaire
webinaire
23,769 corpus weight
- welter
welter
23,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vézère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vézère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ve.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vézère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vézère is uncommon French at frequency #76,230 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ve.zɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rivière des départements de la Corrèze et du Périgord, affluent de la Dordogne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Vézère, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Vézère, spelled V-É-Z-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière des départements de la Corrèze et du Périgord, affluent de la Dordogne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vézère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent nous nous baignions, en jupons, dans les eaux brunes de la Vézère ; nous nous séchions dans l’herbe qui sentait la menthe.
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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