vitis
\ˈwiː.tis\
The verdict
“vitis” is uncommon French (frequency #77,148 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,148
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vigne, cep de vigne, pampre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vitis · vitis · French
vitis · rank #77,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,148
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viti
Nearest frequency peer: viti (-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 « vitis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- visionnages
visionnages
22,856 corpus weight
- visitais
visitais
22,855 corpus weight
- viti
viti
22,854 corpus weight
- vitis
vitis
22,853 corpus weight
- Volkoff
Volkoff
22,852 corpus weight
- Volodymyr
Volodymyr
22,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vitis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwiː.tis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vitis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vitis is uncommon French at frequency #77,148 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwiː.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vitis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vitis, spelled V-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Vigne, cep de vigne, pampre.
- 2Raisin, vin.
- 3Baguette de centurion (faite d'un cep de vigne), grade de centurion.
- 4Couleuvrée, vigne-blanche.
- 5Mantelet de guerre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vitis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depositam ergo stirpem, id est malleolum vel viviradicem, formare sic convenit, ut vitis sine pedamine consistat.
quid, quod inserta castris summam rerum imperiumque continet centurionum in manu vitis et opimo praemio tardos ordines ad lentas perducit aquilas atque etiam in deictis poenam ipsam honorat?
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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