vieille-ville
\vjɛj.vil\
The verdict
“vieille-ville” 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) - Partie ancienne d’une ville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieille-ville · vieille-ville · French
vieille-ville · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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-ville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛj.vil\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vieille-ville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vieille-ville is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vjɛj.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie ancienne d’une ville.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vieille-ville in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vieille-ville, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-E---V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Partie ancienne d’une ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieille-ville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle flânait dans les ruelles de la vieille-ville, puis elle s’installait à sa table et observait les couples, se demandant lequel d’entre eux elle voudrait être.
Porto-Vecchio : ne manquez pas la visite de la vieille-ville lors de vos vacances en Corse.
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.