vicariat
\vi.ka.ʁja\
The verdict
“vicariat” is uncommon French (frequency #57,680 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,680
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonction, emploi de vicaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vicariat · vicariat · French
vicariat · rank #57,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,680
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vibré
Nearest frequency peer: vibré (-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 « vicariat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vez
vez
42,325 corpus weight
- VGA
VGA
42,324 corpus weight
- VHF
VHF
42,323 corpus weight
- vibré
vibré
42,322 corpus weight
- vicariat
vicariat
42,321 corpus weight
- Volgograd
Volgograd
42,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vicariat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vicariat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ka.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vicariat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vicariat is uncommon French at frequency #57,680 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.ka.ʁja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
vicariat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vicariat, spelled V-I-C-A-R-I-A-T.
Definition
- 1Fonction, emploi de vicaire.
- 2Résidence d’un vicaire.
- 3Territoire sur lequel s’étend le pouvoir du vicaire, soit séculier, soit ecclésiastique.
- 4Période durant laquelle officie un vicaire.
- 5Vicariat apostolique : pays de mission, sans diocèse, administré par un vicaire apostolique,
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vicariat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le reste de ces étudians vivait dans la plus profonde misère, et lorsqu’ils avaient obtenu leurs licences, ils retournaient chez eux, attendre de leurs protecteurs une chapellenie, ou quelque vicariat de village.
Les habitants de Bessancourt demandent qu’ils ne soient plus chargés de payer la reconstruction et les grosses réparations de l’église, du presbytère, du vicariat et des maisons du maître et de la maîtresse d’école, […].
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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