vigil
\vi.ʒil\
The verdict
“vigil” is uncommon French (frequency #90,295 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,295
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante archaïque de la forme adjectivale masculine vigile ^([1]) ^([2]) ^([3]) ^([4]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-vigil · vigil · French
vigil · rank #90,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,295
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vidanger
Nearest frequency peer: vidanger (-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 « vigil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vex
vex
9,710 corpus weight
- victoriennes
victoriennes
9,708 corpus weight
- vidanger
vidanger
9,707 corpus weight
- vigil
vigil
9,706 corpus weight
- vili
vili
9,705 corpus weight
- Vinokourov
Vinokourov
9,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vigil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vigil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʒil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vigil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vigil is uncommon French at frequency #90,295 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.ʒil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante archaïque de la forme adjectivale masculine vigile ^([1]) ^([2]) ^([3]) ^([4]).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vigil in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vigil, spelled V-I-G-I-L.
Definition
- 1Variante archaïque de la forme adjectivale masculine vigile ^([1]) ^([2]) ^([3]) ^([4]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vigil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coma vigil ^([1]).
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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