vilebrequin
\vil.bʁə.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“vilebrequin” is uncommon French (frequency #59,712 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,712
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil à main, en forme de manivelle, qui soumet son embout, une mèche ou un foret, à un mouvement de rotation autour d’un axe longitudinal, pour forer un trou dans un matériau rigide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vilebrequin · vilebrequin · French
vilebrequin · rank #59,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,712
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vicence
Nearest frequency peer: Vicence (-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 « vilebrequin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vengent
vengent
40,292 corpus weight
- vibromasseur
vibromasseur
40,291 corpus weight
- Vicence
Vicence
40,290 corpus weight
- vilebrequin
vilebrequin
40,289 corpus weight
- violacé
violacé
40,288 corpus weight
- Virton
Virton
40,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vilebrequin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vilebrequin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vil.bʁə.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vilebrequin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vilebrequin is uncommon French at frequency #59,712 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vil.bʁə.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vilebrequin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vilebrequin, spelled V-I-L-E-B-R-E-Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Outil à main, en forme de manivelle, qui soumet son embout, une mèche ou un foret, à un mouvement de rotation autour d’un axe longitudinal, pour forer un trou dans un matériau rigide.
- 2Arbre coudé rotatif où chaque maneton reçoit une tête de bielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vilebrequin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout à coup une douleur aiguë le perça; il lui sembla qu’un vilebrequin lui forait les tempes.
« Crois-tu, disait Matoussaint en se posant le doigt sur le front comme un vilebrequin, crois-tu qu’il y avait là une pensée grande !…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).