vitupérer
\vi.ty.pe.ʁe\
The verdict
“vitupérer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Blâmer fortement et vivement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vituperer · vitupérer · French
vitupérer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitupérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.ty.pe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vitupérer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vitupérer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \vi.ty.pe.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for vitupérer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vitupérer, spelled V-I-T-U-P-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1ou Blâmer fortement et vivement.
- 2Protester vivement, pester, invectiver contre quelque chose ou contre quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vitupérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous voici devisant avec des Montalbanais de toutes sortes, gens fins et subtils, très avertis du fléau dont nous recherchons les causes, le dénonçant, le déplorant même, le vitupérant, le décrivant, l’analysant, l’exécrant, l’accablant d’imprécations, mais s’en tenant là…
Peut-être « la Dame de Namur », personnage quasi mythologique, que la Fraulein vitupéra jusqu’au dernier souffle, existait-elle déjà, discrètement entretenue, dans une modeste maison d’une rue convenable de cette ville de province.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.