vieillarde
\vjɛ.jaʁd\
The verdict
“vieillarde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme très âgée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieillarde · vieillarde · French
vieillarde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vieillarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛ.jaʁd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vieillarde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vjɛ.jaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme très âgée.".
vieillarde doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vieillarde, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Femme très âgée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieillarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mort brillait par son absence : décéder, ce n’était pas mourir, la métamorphose de cette vieillarde en dalle funéraire ne me déplaisait pas.
Au beau milieu de cette conversation, le berger revint accompagné d’une vieillarde qui n’avait pas perdu tous les attraits de sa jeunesse. La vieillarde nous salua et nous lui rendîmes le salut.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.