vulcains
\vyl.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“vulcains” is uncommon French (frequency #95,456 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,456
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vulcain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vulcains · vulcains · French
vulcains · rank #95,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,456
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vénètes
Nearest frequency peer: vénètes (+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 « vulcains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Villafranca
Villafranca
4,551 corpus weight
- violez
violez
4,548 corpus weight
- virtualité
virtualité
4,547 corpus weight
- vulcains
vulcains
4,545 corpus weight
- vénètes
vénètes
4,544 corpus weight
- waf
waf
4,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vulcains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vulcains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vyl.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vulcains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vulcains is uncommon French at frequency #95,456 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vyl.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de vulcain.".
vulcains has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vulcains, spelled V-U-L-C-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vulcain.
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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