viscose
\vis.kɔz\
The verdict
“viscose” is uncommon French (frequency #83,496 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,496
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Textile artificiel fabriqué à partir de cellulose. Il est doux comme le coton mais est plus fragile et tend à se froisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viscose · viscose · French
viscose · rank #83,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Viroflay
Nearest frequency peer: Viroflay (-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 « viscose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vieillotte
vieillotte
16,511 corpus weight
- vigor
vigor
16,510 corpus weight
- violaient
violaient
16,507 corpus weight
- Viroflay
Viroflay
16,506 corpus weight
- viscose
viscose
16,505 corpus weight
- vroom
vroom
16,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « viscose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viscose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vis.kɔz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « viscose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
viscose is uncommon French at frequency #83,496 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vis.kɔz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Textile artificiel fabriqué à partir de cellulose. Il est doux comme le coton mais est plus fragile et tend à se froisser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for viscose, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is viscose, spelled V-I-S-C-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Textile artificiel fabriqué à partir de cellulose. Il est doux comme le coton mais est plus fragile et tend à se froisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how viscose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l'on songe que la soie artificielle n'atteint encore qu'une vente annuelle de 5 millions de kilogrammes, que le kilogramme se vend à l'heure actuelle environ 20 francs, le prix de revient allant de 15 francs pour la soie de Chardonnet, à 12 francs pour la soie au cuivre et à 8 francs pour la viscose, prix auxquels il faut ajouter 0 fr. 50 pour la trans…
Quatre procédés sont actuellement exploités: […] 3° La soie de viscose de Cross et Bevan.
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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