vilayet
\vi.la.jɛt\
The verdict
“vilayet” is uncommon French (frequency #79,842 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,842
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province dans l’Empire ottoman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vilayet · vilayet · French
vilayet · rank #79,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,842
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vidéoclips
Nearest frequency peer: vidéoclips (-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 « vilayet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vesper
vesper
20,163 corpus weight
- vidéoclips
vidéoclips
20,160 corpus weight
- vilayet
vilayet
20,159 corpus weight
- Villepreux
Villepreux
20,158 corpus weight
- vitrés
vitrés
20,156 corpus weight
- Vlaanderen
Vlaanderen
20,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vilayet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vilayet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.la.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vilayet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vilayet is uncommon French at frequency #79,842 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.la.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vilayet, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 vilayet, spelled V-I-L-A-Y-E-T.
Definition
- 1Province dans l’Empire ottoman.
- 2Province turque en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vilayet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au point de vue administratif, la Turquie d’Europe est divisée en vilayets, gouvernements ou départements, administrés par un vali, gouverneur général, sorte de préfet nommé par le Sultan. Les vilayets se subdivisent en sandjaks ou arrondissements, régis par un moustesarif ; en kazas ou cantons, administrés par un caïmacan ; en nahiës ou communes, avec un…
La chèvre angora habite l'Angora, villayet d’Anatolie en Asie Mineure.
This word in other languages
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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