vicious
The verdict
“vicious” is uncommon French (frequency #89,296 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,296
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vicieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vicious · vicious · French
vicious · rank #89,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,296
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vesle
Nearest frequency peer: Vesle (-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 « vicious »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vernissages
vernissages
10,708 corpus weight
- Vesle
Vesle
10,706 corpus weight
- vicious
vicious
10,705 corpus weight
- visiteront
visiteront
10,703 corpus weight
- viste
viste
10,702 corpus weight
- volontarist…
volontaristes
10,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vicious » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vicious |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vicious » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vicious is uncommon French at frequency #89,296 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vicious has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vicious, spelled V-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Vicieux.
- 2Méchant, perfide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vicious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If lifted into the air, mantes become vicious, attempting to bite everything within reach.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).