iwan
\i.wan\
The verdict
“iwan” is uncommon French (frequency #81,275 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,275
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salle voutée quadrangulaire, grande ouverte par un arc brisé en façade ou sur la cour de certaines mosquées et de certains palais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iwan · iwan · French
iwan · rank #81,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,275
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH jacquart
Nearest frequency peer: jacquart (+2 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 « iwan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- isomorphisme
isomorphisme
18,729 corpus weight
- iwan
iwan
18,726 corpus weight
- jacquart
jacquart
18,724 corpus weight
- JAF
JAF
18,723 corpus weight
- Jaoui
Jaoui
18,722 corpus weight
- joignait
joignait
18,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « iwan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iwan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.wan\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « iwan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
iwan is uncommon French at frequency #81,275 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.wan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Salle voutée quadrangulaire, grande ouverte par un arc brisé en façade ou sur la cour de certaines mosquées et de certains palais.".
iwan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is iwan, spelled I-W-A-N.
Definition
- 1Salle voutée quadrangulaire, grande ouverte par un arc brisé en façade ou sur la cour de certaines mosquées et de certains palais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how iwan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me faut deux jours pour bien connaître ma médressé Tilla Kâri, en persan la mosquée Dorée. Dans chacun des quatre murs de la cour, il y a dix grandes niches ogivales ; chaque niche centrale est très vaste, arche entourée d’une façade où étincellent les mosaïques de toutes couleurs ; c’est l’iwan, le portail classique.
Le Jahângîri Mahal, est un vaste palais dont la façade extérieure, centrée par un iwan, est flanquée de tourelles d’angles et incrustée de marbre.
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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