vili
\vi.li\
The verdict
“vili” is uncommon French (frequency #90,296 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,296
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue bantoue parlée en Afrique centrale, particulièrement en République du Congo et au Gabon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vili · vili · French
vili · rank #90,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,296
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vigil
Nearest frequency peer: vigil (-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 « vili »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- victoriennes
victoriennes
9,708 corpus weight
- vidanger
vidanger
9,707 corpus weight
- vigil
vigil
9,706 corpus weight
- vili
vili
9,705 corpus weight
- Vinokourov
Vinokourov
9,704 corpus weight
- vivarium
vivarium
9,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vili » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vili |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vili » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vili is uncommon French at frequency #90,296 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue bantoue parlée en Afrique centrale, particulièrement en République du Congo et au Gabon.".
vili doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vili, spelled V-I-L-I.
Definition
- 1Langue bantoue parlée en Afrique centrale, particulièrement en République du Congo et au Gabon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vili appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même le "k" dans les autres langues kongo devient "tch" en vili.
Synonyms
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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