vigneau
\vi.ɲo\
The verdict
“vigneau” is uncommon French (frequency #75,334 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,334
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans un jardin, petite butte sur laquelle existe un tracé hélicoïdal planté de vigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vigneau · vigneau · French
vigneau · rank #75,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,334
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vertue
Nearest frequency peer: vertue (-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 « vigneau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- verdoyants
verdoyants
24,670 corpus weight
- versatilité
versatilité
24,669 corpus weight
- vertue
vertue
24,668 corpus weight
- vigneau
vigneau
24,667 corpus weight
- Vigouroux
Vigouroux
24,666 corpus weight
- Villemomble
Villemomble
24,663 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vigneau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vigneau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ɲo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vigneau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vigneau is uncommon French at frequency #75,334 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.ɲo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vigneau, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 vigneau, spelled V-I-G-N-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Dans un jardin, petite butte sur laquelle existe un tracé hélicoïdal planté de vigne.
- 2Bigorneau.
- 3Grillage métallique maintenu par un cadre à environ un mètre du sol et servant à disposer à l'air libre des morues salées que l'on veut sécher ou déshydrater
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vigneau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vigneau ou vignot (le terme est orthographié différemment suivant les éditions). Terme qui désigne en Normandie un tertre artificiel, couronné de treille, formant un cabinet de verdure.
Ne restait plus que le manoir et son jardin de plein rapport, son verger, ses espaliers et son vigneau ainsi que le précisait l'annonce légale de la vente publique parue dans le Journal de Falaise.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).