virtus
The verdict
“virtus” is uncommon French (frequency #67,962 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,962
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertu, force morale, force d'âme, perfection, qualité, mérite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virtus · virtus · French
virtus · rank #67,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,962
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verrouillées
Nearest frequency peer: verrouillées (-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 « virtus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- veillons
veillons
32,043 corpus weight
- velues
velues
32,042 corpus weight
- verrouillées
verrouillées
32,040 corpus weight
- virtus
virtus
32,039 corpus weight
- VMC
VMC
32,037 corpus weight
- voyions
voyions
32,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « virtus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virtus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « virtus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
virtus is uncommon French at frequency #67,962 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for virtus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 virtus, spelled V-I-R-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Vertu, force morale, force d'âme, perfection, qualité, mérite.
- 2Valeur, vaillance, courage, force, puissance, pouvoir, énergie, vigueur.
- 3Aide, secours, influence.
- 4Vertu, chasteté (de la femme).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virtus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
appellata est ex viro virtus
virtutes continentiae, gravitatis
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).