vieille école
The verdict
“vieille école” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manières à l’ancienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieille-ecole · vieille école · French
vieille école · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | vieille école |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vieille école » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vieille école is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manières à l’ancienne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vieille école, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vieille école, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-E- -É-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Manières à l’ancienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieille école appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme chaque fois que je nippais en milord, costume en cashmere, les pieds campés dans des Richelieu, j'avais une pensée pour le beau-père de mon ami P., un voyou de la vieille école, que je n'avais vu que trois fois dans ma vie, mais dont la ganache m'avait imposé le respect pour toujours.
Bodenstein, en homme bien élevé, s’inclina poliment, très vieille école. il ne manquait que le baise-main.
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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.