viralité
\vi.ʁa.li.te\
The verdict
“viralité” is uncommon French (frequency #91,281 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,281
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’être contagieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viralite · viralité · French
viralité · rank #91,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,281
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH violine
Nearest frequency peer: violine (-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 « viralité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Villaines
Villaines
8,723 corpus weight
- violement
violement
8,722 corpus weight
- violine
violine
8,721 corpus weight
- viralité
viralité
8,720 corpus weight
- Virenque
Virenque
8,719 corpus weight
- Vitus
Vitus
8,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « viralité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viralité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.ʁa.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « viralité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
viralité is uncommon French at frequency #91,281 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.ʁa.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
viralité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is viralité, spelled V-I-R-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Fait d’être contagieux.
- 2Qualité de ce qui est viral, caractère viral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how viralité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kevin Mellet, socio-économiste à Orange Labs, explique au figaro.fr que «la viralité se construit par la capacité des individus à se réapproprier un contenu».
Ces rassemblements non déclarés et organisés grâce à la viralité des réseaux sociaux sont les successeurs des « free parties » ou « rave parties » des années 1990, déjà basées sur la clandestinité, la gratuité et l’esprit de fête.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).