vigies
\vi.ʒi\
The verdict
“vigies” is uncommon French (frequency #96,486 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,486
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vigie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vigies · vigies · French
vigies · rank #96,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,486
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vernir
Nearest frequency peer: vernir (-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 « vigies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vendômois
Vendômois
3,518 corpus weight
- vernir
vernir
3,516 corpus weight
- vigies
vigies
3,515 corpus weight
- vilipender
vilipender
3,514 corpus weight
- vindicatifs
vindicatifs
3,513 corpus weight
- viret
viret
3,512 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vigies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vigies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vigies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vigies is uncommon French at frequency #96,486 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vigie.".
vigies has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 vigies, spelled V-I-G-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vigie.
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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