vineux
\vi.nø\
The verdict
“vineux” is uncommon French (frequency #76,220 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,220
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est fertile en vin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vineux · vineux · French
vineux · rank #76,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,220
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vines
Nearest frequency peer: vines (-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 « vineux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vicinal
vicinal
23,785 corpus weight
- vidéoconfér…
vidéoconférence
23,784 corpus weight
- viejo
viejo
23,783 corpus weight
- vines
vines
23,782 corpus weight
- vineux
vineux
23,781 corpus weight
- vocalique
vocalique
23,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vineux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vineux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.nø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vineux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vineux is uncommon French at frequency #76,220 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.nø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
vineux has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vineux, spelled V-I-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est fertile en vin.
- 2Se dit du vin qui a beaucoup de force.
- 3Qui a un goût, une odeur de vin.
- 4Qui est de couleur rouge comme le vin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vineux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des coteaux vineux.
Des campagnes vineuses.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).