viriles
\vi.ʁil\
The verdict
“viriles” is uncommon French (frequency #67,201 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,201
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de viril.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viriles · viriles · French
viriles · rank #67,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,201
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viles
Nearest frequency peer: viles (-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 « viriles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vidage
vidage
32,803 corpus weight
- vieilleries
vieilleries
32,802 corpus weight
- viles
viles
32,801 corpus weight
- viriles
viriles
32,800 corpus weight
- vissée
vissée
32,799 corpus weight
- vitreux
vitreux
32,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « viriles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viriles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʁil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « viriles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
viriles is uncommon French at frequency #67,201 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.ʁil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de viril.".
No misspelling variants are generated for viriles in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is viriles, spelled V-I-R-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de viril.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how viriles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non seulement il habillait une de mes idoles de préadolescente (Madonna), non seulement il réussissait à hyper-féminiser les femmes tout en les rendant puissantes (voir le corset avec les bonnets en métal), mais en plus il troublait les codes de genre, mettant des jupes aux hommes et valorisant des figures viriles gays.
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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