dewar
\di.waʁ\
The verdict
“dewar” is uncommon French (frequency #68,198 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,198
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vase Dewar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dewar · dewar · French
dewar · rank #68,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH despotes
Nearest frequency peer: despotes (-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 « dewar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- demonstrati…
demonstration
31,807 corpus weight
- Desbordes
Desbordes
31,806 corpus weight
- despotes
despotes
31,804 corpus weight
- dewar
dewar
31,803 corpus weight
- Dieng
Dieng
31,802 corpus weight
- dimensionnel
dimensionnel
31,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dewar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dewar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.waʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dewar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dewar is uncommon French at frequency #68,198 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.waʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vase Dewar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dewar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 dewar, spelled D-E-W-A-R.
Definition
- 1Vase Dewar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dewar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un dewar de cinquante litres d’azote liquide, renversé par la fenêtre du laboratoire, crée un brouillard givrant en plein mois d’août.
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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