vicomtesse
\vi.kɔ̃.tɛs\
The verdict
“vicomtesse” is uncommon French (frequency #56,353 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,353
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épouse ou veuve d’un vicomte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vicomtesse · vicomtesse · French
vicomtesse · rank #56,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,353
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verdoyante
Nearest frequency peer: verdoyante (-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 « vicomtesse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vault
vault
43,651 corpus weight
- vector
vector
43,650 corpus weight
- verdoyante
verdoyante
43,649 corpus weight
- vicomtesse
vicomtesse
43,648 corpus weight
- viendrons
viendrons
43,647 corpus weight
- voguer
voguer
43,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vicomtesse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vicomtesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.kɔ̃.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vicomtesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vicomtesse is uncommon French at frequency #56,353 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.kɔ̃.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vicomtesse has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vicomtesse, spelled V-I-C-O-M-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Épouse ou veuve d’un vicomte.
- 2Femme détenant une vicomté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vicomtesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Camille et la marquise entrèrent dans Guérande avec la vicomtesse de Kergarouët et sa fille, au grand étonnement de toute la ville ébahie ; elles laissèrent leurs compagnes de voyage à l’entrée de la ruelle du Guénic, où peu s’en fallut qu’il ne se formât un attroupement.
Ah ! maudite vie de garçon ! Sans mes déportements, ma Célestine serait aujourd’hui la vicomtesse Popinot !
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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