vici
\ˈbisi\
The verdict
“vici” is uncommon French (frequency #85,371 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,371
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vici · vici · French
vici · rank #85,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,371
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vibratoires
Nearest frequency peer: vibratoires (-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 « vici »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- venner
venner
14,636 corpus weight
- verrines
verrines
14,633 corpus weight
- versons
versons
14,632 corpus weight
- vibratoires
vibratoires
14,631 corpus weight
- vici
vici
14,630 corpus weight
- vrak
vrak
14,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vici » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vici |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbisi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vici » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vici is uncommon French at frequency #85,371 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbisi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vice.".
vici has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vici, spelled V-I-C-I.
Definition
- 1Vice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vici appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A ton marit, si tu no el venç en lo començ essent novici, tost prendrà vici, dar t’ha faena, viuràs ab pena.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).