Vitus

name

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The verdict

“Vitus” is uncommon French (frequency #91,284 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,284
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guy.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vitus · Vitus · French

Vitus · rank #91,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,284
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH voleuses

Nearest frequency peer: voleuses (+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 « Vitus »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vitus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Vitus
PropertyValue
HeadwordVitus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#91,284
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Vitus » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Vitustombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « voleuses » (#91,285), « Virenque » (#91,282), « vosgiennes » (#91,286). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Vitus » est au #91,284. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Vitus is uncommon French at frequency #91,284 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Guy.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Vitus, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Vitus, spelled V-I-T-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Guy.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Vitus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. St. Vitus' dance, danse de saint Guy.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vitus"?
"Vitus" is spelled V-I-T-U-S.
What does "Vitus" mean?
As a proper noun, "Vitus" means: Guy.
What language does "Vitus" come from?
"Vitus" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Vitus", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vento#91,272tromp#91,250égaye#91,319tiene#91,229

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list