Vialatte
\vja.lat\
The verdict
“Vialatte” is uncommon French (frequency #76,215 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,215
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-vialatte · Vialatte · French
Vialatte · rank #76,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,215
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vernant
Nearest frequency peer: Vernant (-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 « Vialatte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- verbiage
verbiage
23,789 corpus weight
- Vernant
Vernant
23,787 corpus weight
- Vialatte
Vialatte
23,786 corpus weight
- vicinal
vicinal
23,785 corpus weight
- vidéoconfér…
vidéoconférence
23,784 corpus weight
- viejo
viejo
23,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vialatte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vialatte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vja.lat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vialatte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vialatte is uncommon French at frequency #76,215 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vja.lat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Vialatte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Vialatte, spelled V-I-A-L-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]).
- 2Alexandre Vialatte, écrivain français (1901-1971).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vialatte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Carine Vialatte succède à Amin Boutaghane à la tête de l’Uclat, annonce le ministre de l’Intérieur Gérald Darmanin, mardi 25 janvier 2022.
Outre Les fruits du Congo et Battling le ténébreux, ses premiers romans, Vialatte, fut l’auteur de ces nombreuses et souvent inénarrables « Chroniques de la Montagne » qu’il terminait toujours par la formule : « Et c’est ainsi qu’Allah est grand ! ».
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).