vingt-six
\vɛ̃t.sis\
The verdict
“vingt-six” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vingt-cinq plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 26.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vingt-six · vingt-six · French
vingt-six · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vingt-six |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛ̃t.sis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vingt-six is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛ̃t.sis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vingt-six has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vingt-six, spelled V-I-N-G-T---S-I-X.
Definition
- 1Vingt-cinq plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 26.
- 2Vingt-sixième. Adjectif numéral ordinal correspondant au nombre 26.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vingt-six appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui on recrute des postdocs à vingt-six ans…
Page vingt-six.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.