Vistule
\vis.tyl\
The verdict
“Vistule” is uncommon French (frequency #50,577 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,577
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand fleuve qui se jette dans la mer Baltique après avoir traversé la Pologne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vistule · Vistule · French
Vistule · rank #50,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,577
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH virtue
Nearest frequency peer: virtue (-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 « Vistule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vertigo
vertigo
49,427 corpus weight
- vicieuses
vicieuses
49,426 corpus weight
- virtue
virtue
49,425 corpus weight
- Vistule
Vistule
49,424 corpus weight
- vivras
vivras
49,423 corpus weight
- vorace
vorace
49,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vistule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vistule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vis.tyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vistule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vistule is uncommon French at frequency #50,577 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vis.tyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand fleuve qui se jette dans la mer Baltique après avoir traversé la Pologne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Vistule, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Vistule, spelled V-I-S-T-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Grand fleuve qui se jette dans la mer Baltique après avoir traversé la Pologne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vistule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les subsistances seront versées dans les lieux qui seront indiqués par l’intendant-général de l’armée, savoir : la moitié dans les places de l’Oder et de la Vistule, y compris Modelin, et l’autre moitié dans les places de la Prusse orientale et occidentale.
Pendant la nuit et pendant la journée du lendemain, nous fîmes vingt lieues en suivant les bords d'une de ces rivières sans nom qui viennent se jeter dans la Vistule.
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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