virait
\vi.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“virait” is uncommon French (frequency #69,524 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,524
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de virer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virait · virait · French
virait · rank #69,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,524
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voo
Nearest frequency peer: voo (+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 « virait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vexations
vexations
30,481 corpus weight
- vieillissan…
vieillissants
30,479 corpus weight
- virait
virait
30,477 corpus weight
- voo
voo
30,476 corpus weight
- voyent
voyent
30,475 corpus weight
- wallabies
wallabies
30,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « virait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « virait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
virait is uncommon French at frequency #69,524 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vi.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de virer.".
virait has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
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 virait, spelled V-I-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de virer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how virait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le brick virait de bord.
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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