Villacoublay
\vi.la.ku.blɛ\
The verdict
“Villacoublay” is uncommon French (frequency #60,467 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,467
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune de Vélizy-Villacoublay, située dans le département des Yvelines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-villacoublay · Villacoublay · French
Villacoublay · rank #60,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,467
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vilvorde
Nearest frequency peer: Vilvorde (+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 « Villacoublay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vienna
Vienna
39,537 corpus weight
- Villacoublay
Villacoublay
39,534 corpus weight
- Vilvorde
Vilvorde
39,533 corpus weight
- virgo
virgo
39,532 corpus weight
- visionnement
visionnement
39,531 corpus weight
- vivrons
vivrons
39,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Villacoublay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Villacoublay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vi.la.ku.blɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Villacoublay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Villacoublay is uncommon French at frequency #60,467 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vi.la.ku.blɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Villacoublay, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Villacoublay, spelled V-I-L-L-A-C-O-U-B-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune de Vélizy-Villacoublay, située dans le département des Yvelines.
- 2Aérodrome militaire des Yvelines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Villacoublay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les quatre-vingts canons et les douze mortiers formidables destinés au bombardement dormaient toujours à Villacoublay, malgré l’impatience exprimée de cinq cent mille hommes, malgré la rage inexprimable de Bismarck lui-même, et il se disait ouvertement dans les deux armées, que certaines influences féminines très mystérieuses ajournaient, au delà de la Na…
Le 8 avril à l’aube, un Falcon de l’armée de l’air a décollé de Villacoublay pour amener au Bourget le ministre des Affaires étrangères
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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