virginal
\viʁ.ʒi.nal\
The verdict
“virginal” is uncommon French (frequency #72,001 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,001
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre aux vierges, qui annonce la virginité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virginal · virginal · French
virginal · rank #72,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,001
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vocalement
Nearest frequency peer: vocalement (+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 « virginal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vibrants
vibrants
28,003 corpus weight
- vidait
vidait
28,002 corpus weight
- virginal
virginal
28,000 corpus weight
- vocalement
vocalement
27,999 corpus weight
- voisinages
voisinages
27,998 corpus weight
- volubile
volubile
27,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « virginal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virginal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \viʁ.ʒi.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « virginal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
virginal is uncommon French at frequency #72,001 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \viʁ.ʒi.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
virginal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is virginal, spelled V-I-R-G-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre aux vierges, qui annonce la virginité.
- 2Qui concerne la Vierge Marie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virginal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est cela qu’évoque le journaliste américain Garry Will lorsqu’il pose la question : « Un peuple qui croit avec plus de ferveur en la conception virginale du Christ qu’en l’évolution des espèces peut-il être encore qualifié de nation éclairée ? ».
La figure, de l’ovale si souvent trouvé par Raphaël pour ses madones, se distingue par la couleur sobre et virginale des pommettes […]
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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