vibrato
\vib.ʁa.to\
The verdict
“vibrato” is uncommon French (frequency #77,140 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,140
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variation rapide de la hauteur d’un son autour de la fréquence. Ne pas confondre avec le trémolo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vibrato · vibrato · French
vibrato · rank #77,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,140
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vermeulen
Nearest frequency peer: Vermeulen (-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 « vibrato »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vendirent
vendirent
22,865 corpus weight
- verification
verification
22,863 corpus weight
- Vermeulen
Vermeulen
22,862 corpus weight
- vibrato
vibrato
22,861 corpus weight
- Villefort
Villefort
22,860 corpus weight
- Vimont
Vimont
22,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vibrato » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vibrato |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vib.ʁa.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vibrato » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vibrato is uncommon French at frequency #77,140 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vib.ʁa.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variation rapide de la hauteur d’un son autour de la fréquence. Ne pas confondre avec le trémolo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vibrato in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vibrato, spelled V-I-B-R-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Variation rapide de la hauteur d’un son autour de la fréquence. Ne pas confondre avec le trémolo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vibrato appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il [Laurent Voulzy] chante sans employer le moindre vibrato dont usent et abusent beaucoup de crooners.
Une fille à l'apparence fragile, au corps maigre, au regard perdu et à la voix pleine de vibratos.
This word in other languages
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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