vidame
\vi.dam\
The verdict
“vidame” is uncommon French (frequency #73,641 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,641
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentant temporel d’un évêque, d’un abbé, chargé de le défendre et de commander ses troupes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vidame · vidame · French
vidame · rank #73,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,641
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vinicius
Nearest frequency peer: Vinicius (+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 « vidame »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vela
vela
26,363 corpus weight
- verchères
verchères
26,362 corpus weight
- vidame
vidame
26,360 corpus weight
- Vinicius
Vinicius
26,359 corpus weight
- violoncelles
violoncelles
26,358 corpus weight
- vitrier
vitrier
26,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vidame » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vidame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.dam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vidame » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vidame is uncommon French at frequency #73,641 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.dam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vidame, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vidame, spelled V-I-D-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Représentant temporel d’un évêque, d’un abbé, chargé de le défendre et de commander ses troupes.
- 2Titre de noblesse héréditaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vidame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Guermond de Pequigny, vidame de l'évêque, était à leur tête, et soutenait puissamment leur querelle.
C’est dans un bien piteux état que j’échois à Heinrich von Hohenstein, vidame de l’évêque de Strasbourg peu après 1424,.. Le Kagenfels raconte son histoire…
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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