Buchenwald
\by.kən.vald\
The verdict
“Buchenwald” is uncommon French (frequency #55,109 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,109
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Camp de concentration nazi situé sur la colline d’Ettersberg près de Weimar, en Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buchenwald · Buchenwald · French
Buchenwald · rank #55,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,109
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buccal
Nearest frequency peer: buccal (-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 « Buchenwald »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brouillards
brouillards
44,895 corpus weight
- Brugeois
Brugeois
44,894 corpus weight
- buccal
buccal
44,893 corpus weight
- Buchenwald
Buchenwald
44,892 corpus weight
- butent
butent
44,891 corpus weight
- bénéficiera…
bénéficierait
44,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Buchenwald » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Buchenwald |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \by.kən.vald\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Buchenwald » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Buchenwald is uncommon French at frequency #55,109 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \by.kən.vald\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Camp de concentration nazi situé sur la colline d’Ettersberg près de Weimar, en Allemagne.".
Buchenwald has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Buchenwald, spelled B-U-C-H-E-N-W-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1Camp de concentration nazi situé sur la colline d’Ettersberg près de Weimar, en Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Buchenwald appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jeune homme qui a passé de longs mois à Buchenwald me parle des différentes classes de prisonniers. Les anciens, ceux de 33 ou 34, avaient droit au cinéma et… au bordel ! Les derniers venus étaient régulièrement maltraités par les anciens.
La première vois que je l’avais vu à Buchenwald, à l’automne, je lui avait rappelé son cours sur le potlatch. Et ça l’avait beaucoup amusé d’évoquer la Sorbonne, l’année 1942, ses leçons sur l’économie du potlatch.
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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