vineuse
\vi.nøz\
The verdict
“vineuse” is uncommon French (frequency #87,247 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,247
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de vineux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vineuse · vineuse · French
vineuse · rank #87,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,247
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visionnées
Nearest frequency peer: visionnées (+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 « vineuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vidéothèque
vidéothèque
12,757 corpus weight
- vineuse
vineuse
12,754 corpus weight
- visionnées
visionnées
12,753 corpus weight
- vivats
vivats
12,752 corpus weight
- voituriers
voituriers
12,751 corpus weight
- votèrent
votèrent
12,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vineuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vineuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.nøz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vineuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vineuse is uncommon French at frequency #87,247 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.nøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de vineux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vineuse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vineuse, spelled V-I-N-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de vineux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vineuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était onze heures, M. Pelletier détourna à regret son regard de la mer qui, à cette heure-ci, tirait sur le violet, "une mer vineuse", pensa Hélène qui avait lu Homère et qui, elle aussi, mais trois étages plus haut, debout face à la baie vitrée, regardait l'horizon tandis que Xavier Lhomond, derrière, en la besognant, disait des choses cochonnes qui l…
Le lendemain, dès huit heures et demie, le grand Schoultz, tout fringant, vêtu de nankin des pieds à la tête, la petite canne de baleine à la main, et la casquette de chasse en cuir bouilli carrément plantée sur sa longue figure brune un peu vineuse, montait l’escalier de Kobus quatre à quatre.
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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