viles
\vil\
The verdict
“viles” is uncommon French (frequency #67,200 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,200
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de vil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viles · viles · French
viles · rank #67,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,200
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vieilleries
Nearest frequency peer: vieilleries (-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 « viles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vexés
vexés
32,804 corpus weight
- vidage
vidage
32,803 corpus weight
- vieilleries
vieilleries
32,802 corpus weight
- viles
viles
32,801 corpus weight
- viriles
viriles
32,800 corpus weight
- vissée
vissée
32,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « viles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « viles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
viles is uncommon French at frequency #67,200 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de vil.".
viles has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is viles, spelled V-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de vil.
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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