vingtenaire
\vɛ̃.tə.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“vingtenaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une durée de vingt ans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vingtenaire · vingtenaire · French
vingtenaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | vingtenaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛ̃.tə.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vingtenaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛ̃.tə.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vingtenaire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vingtenaire, spelled V-I-N-G-T-E-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1D’une durée de vingt ans.
- 2Qui revient avec une fréquence de vingt ans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vingtenaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La prescription vingtenaire permettait de devenir automatiquement propriétaire d’une terre après vingt ans d’exploitation continue de celle-ci.
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.