Luftwaffe
\luft.va.fə\
The verdict
“Luftwaffe” is uncommon French (frequency #57,398 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,398
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Armée de l’air allemande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-luftwaffe · Luftwaffe · French
Luftwaffe · rank #57,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,398
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Léonidas
Nearest frequency peer: Léonidas (+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 « Luftwaffe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loyalement
loyalement
42,606 corpus weight
- loyales
loyales
42,605 corpus weight
- Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe
42,603 corpus weight
- Léonidas
Léonidas
42,602 corpus weight
- lépidoptères
lépidoptères
42,601 corpus weight
- macédonienne
macédonienne
42,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Luftwaffe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luftwaffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \luft.va.fə\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Luftwaffe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Luftwaffe is uncommon French at frequency #57,398 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \luft.va.fə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Armée de l’air allemande.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Luftwaffe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Luftwaffe, spelled L-U-F-T-W-A-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1Armée de l’air allemande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luftwaffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je marche au pifomètre, puisque je vous ai dit mon chronomètre de la Luftwaffe est au pégal… au Crédit mutuel !
Je ne pus m'empêcher de lui faire remarquer que si tout ce que je risquais d'attraper avec la Luftwaffe était une angine, j'aurais vraiment de la veine.
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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