vitreux
\vi.tʁø\
The verdict
“vitreux” is uncommon French (frequency #67,203 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,203
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de la nature du verre ou la pâte de verre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vitreux · vitreux · French
vitreux · rank #67,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,203
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vissée
Nearest frequency peer: vissée (-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 « vitreux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- viles
viles
32,801 corpus weight
- viriles
viriles
32,800 corpus weight
- vissée
vissée
32,799 corpus weight
- vitreux
vitreux
32,798 corpus weight
- voiturage
voiturage
32,797 corpus weight
- voterons
voterons
32,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vitreux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.tʁø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vitreux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vitreux is uncommon French at frequency #67,203 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.tʁø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vitreux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vitreux, spelled V-I-T-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est de la nature du verre ou la pâte de verre.
- 2Qualifie l’état solide caractérisé par l’absence de cristallisation.
- 3Qui a de la ressemblance avec le verre ou la pâte de verre.
- 4Qualifie un œil dont l’éclat est terni.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vitreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La visualisation des courants de verre et les mesures de température dans la masse vitreuse effectuées sur des fours en activité sont complexes, coûteuses et souvent incompatibles avec l’activité industrielle.
Enfin, j'ai trouvé des laitiers de hauts fourneaux, en partie vitreux et en partie clivables, mais offrant toujours une démarcation tranchée entre la partie cristalline et la partie translucide.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).