virevoltant
\viʁ.vɔl.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“virevoltant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,216 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,216
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui virevolte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virevoltant · virevoltant · French
virevoltant · rank #88,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,216
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vinaigres
Nearest frequency peer: vinaigres (-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 « virevoltant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Villebon
Villebon
11,787 corpus weight
- vinaigres
vinaigres
11,786 corpus weight
- virevoltant
virevoltant
11,785 corpus weight
- visitaient
visitaient
11,784 corpus weight
- visitor
visitor
11,783 corpus weight
- vivid
vivid
11,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « virevoltant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virevoltant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \viʁ.vɔl.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « virevoltant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
virevoltant is uncommon French at frequency #88,216 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \viʁ.vɔl.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui virevolte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for virevoltant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is virevoltant, spelled V-I-R-E-V-O-L-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui virevolte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virevoltant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sons virevoltants de la langue européenne à la mode, en le caressant, furent comme un baiser à son oreille.
Car Montpellier, hors la session universitaire où la nuée virevoltante des étudiants envahissait et rendait vie et bruyance, rompant avec la somnolence habituelle de ma douce et égocentrique ville, restait figée dans un train-train « pépère ».
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).