Virenque
The verdict
“Virenque” is uncommon French (frequency #91,282 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,282
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]), surtout connu par Richard Virenque (né en 1969), coureur cycliste français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virenque · Virenque · French
Virenque · rank #91,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,282
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viralité
Nearest frequency peer: viralité (-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 « Virenque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- voleuses
voleuses
8,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Virenque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Virenque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Virenque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Virenque is uncommon French at frequency #91,282 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]), surtout connu par Richard Virenque (né en 1969), coureur cycliste français.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Virenque, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Virenque, spelled V-I-R-E-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]), surtout connu par Richard Virenque (né en 1969), coureur cycliste français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Virenque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les coureurs français les plus adulés (Anquetil, Thévenet, Hinault, Fignon, Duclos-Lassalle, Virenque, Jalabert ou Alaphilippe) tout comme certains maillots jaunes internationaux (Indurain, Evans, Contador ou Froome) y ont fendu la foule.
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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