awake
\ə.ˈweɪk\
The verdict
“awake” is uncommon French (frequency #75,427 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,427
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Utilisé uniquement comme attribut) Réveillé, éveillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-awake · awake · French
awake · rank #75,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,427
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Avoriaz
Nearest frequency peer: Avoriaz (-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 « awake »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- automnales
automnales
24,577 corpus weight
- Avignonnais
Avignonnais
24,576 corpus weight
- Avoriaz
Avoriaz
24,575 corpus weight
- awake
awake
24,574 corpus weight
- backdoor
backdoor
24,573 corpus weight
- bails
bails
24,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « awake » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ə.ˈweɪk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « awake » en français
Rare enough to double-check
awake is uncommon French at frequency #75,427 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ə.ˈweɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Utilisé uniquement comme attribut) Réveillé, éveillé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for awake, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is awake, spelled A-W-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1(Utilisé uniquement comme attribut) Réveillé, éveillé.
Antonyms
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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