voguer
\vɔ.ɡe\
The verdict
“voguer” is uncommon French (frequency #56,356 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,356
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être poussé sur l’eau à force de rames ; nager à la rame.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voguer · voguer · French
voguer · rank #56,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,356
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voterais
Nearest frequency peer: voterais (+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 « voguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vicomtesse
vicomtesse
43,648 corpus weight
- viendrons
viendrons
43,647 corpus weight
- voguer
voguer
43,645 corpus weight
- voterais
voterais
43,644 corpus weight
- voyeurs
voyeurs
43,643 corpus weight
- vulgairement
vulgairement
43,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « voguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔ.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voguer is uncommon French at frequency #56,356 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɔ.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for voguer, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is voguer, spelled V-O-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être poussé sur l’eau à force de rames ; nager à la rame.
- 2Naviguer de quelque manière que ce soit.
- 3Se mouvoir.
- 4Progresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme le vent tombe, les deux galères voguent à quartier, puis avant tout jusqu'à Sète, où elles entrent à l'aube... et n'en sortent pas de sitôt, […].
Un soir, t’en souvient-il ? nous voguions en silence ; On n’entendait au loin, sur l’onde et sous les cieux, Que le bruit des rameurs qui frappaient en cadence Tes flots harmonieux.
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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