vicaires
\vi.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“vicaires” is uncommon French (frequency #58,343 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,343
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vicaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vicaires · vicaires · French
vicaires · rank #58,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,343
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vertueuses
Nearest frequency peer: vertueuses (-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 « vicaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vermines
vermines
41,661 corpus weight
- verreries
verreries
41,660 corpus weight
- vertueuses
vertueuses
41,659 corpus weight
- vicaires
vicaires
41,658 corpus weight
- Vieu
Vieu
41,657 corpus weight
- Vimy
Vimy
41,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vicaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vicaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vicaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vicaires is uncommon French at frequency #58,343 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vicaire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vicaires, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vicaires, spelled V-I-C-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vicaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vicaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On “décorsifie” de plus en plus les emplois : les vicaires, les contrôleurs des tours…, devront être, désormais, di Terra ferma, c’est-à-dire continentaux.
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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