Vodafone
The verdict
“Vodafone” is uncommon French (frequency #61,978 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,978
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe de télécommunications britannique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vodafone · Vodafone · French
Vodafone · rank #61,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,978
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vladislav
Nearest frequency peer: Vladislav (-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 « Vodafone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- viserait
viserait
38,026 corpus weight
- visionnez
visionnez
38,025 corpus weight
- Vladislav
Vladislav
38,024 corpus weight
- Vodafone
Vodafone
38,023 corpus weight
- Volvic
Volvic
38,022 corpus weight
- voyageaient
voyageaient
38,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vodafone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vodafone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vodafone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vodafone is uncommon French at frequency #61,978 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupe de télécommunications britannique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Vodafone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Vodafone, spelled V-O-D-A-F-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe de télécommunications britannique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vodafone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes le 3 décembre 1992 lorsque Neil Papworth, jeune ingénieur télécom, envoie ce « Joyeux Noël ! » à Richard Travis, l’un des dirigeants de Vodafone, géant des télécommunications.
L’opérateur mobile international Vodafone voulait élargir son empreinte globale.
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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