Vinicius
The verdict
“Vinicius” is uncommon French (frequency #73,642 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,642
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vinicius · Vinicius · French
Vinicius · rank #73,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,642
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vidame
Nearest frequency peer: vidame (-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 « Vinicius »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- verchères
verchères
26,362 corpus weight
- vidame
vidame
26,360 corpus weight
- Vinicius
Vinicius
26,359 corpus weight
- violoncelles
violoncelles
26,358 corpus weight
- vitrier
vitrier
26,357 corpus weight
- voyagiste
voyagiste
26,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vinicius » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vinicius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vinicius » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vinicius is uncommon French at frequency #73,642 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Vinicius has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Vinicius, spelled V-I-N-I-C-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vinicius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un chat voulait miauler en même temps que Vinicius.
Pour sa dernière saison à Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti se dirige donc vers un changement de système : sans numéro 9 mais avec Bellingham au cœur du jeu et les flèches Vinicius et Rodrygo sur les côtés.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).