vidanges
\vi.dɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“vidanges” is uncommon French (frequency #52,420 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,420
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vidange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vidanges · vidanges · French
vidanges · rank #52,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Viard
Nearest frequency peer: Viard (-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 « vidanges »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vexant
vexant
47,583 corpus weight
- Viard
Viard
47,582 corpus weight
- vidanges
vidanges
47,581 corpus weight
- villageoises
villageoises
47,580 corpus weight
- Villanueva
Villanueva
47,579 corpus weight
- virant
virant
47,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vidanges » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vidanges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.dɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vidanges » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vidanges is uncommon French at frequency #52,420 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.dɑ̃ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vidange.".
Zero misspellings are on record for vidanges in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vidanges, spelled V-I-D-A-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vidange.
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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