vigilantes
\vi.ʒi.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“vigilantes” is uncommon French (frequency #74,467 among 148,117 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,467
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de vigilant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vigilantes · vigilantes · French
vigilantes · rank #74,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,467
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 148,117
- PHOTO-FINISH viewer
Nearest frequency peer: viewer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vigilantes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Viaud
Viaud
25,538 corpus weight
- Vientiane
Vientiane
25,536 corpus weight
- viewer
viewer
25,535 corpus weight
- vigilantes
vigilantes
25,534 corpus weight
- violerait
violerait
25,531 corpus weight
- visionnant
visionnant
25,530 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vigilantes” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vigilantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʒi.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vigilantes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vigilantes is uncommon French at frequency #74,467 among 148,117 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.ʒi.lɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de vigilant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vigilantes in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vigilantes, spelled V-I-G-I-L-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de vigilant.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vigilantes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.