W3C
\du.blə.ve.tʁwa.se\
The verdict
“W3C” is an uncommon French word, ranked #70,312 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #70,312
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Le World Wide Web Consortium, un organisme de standardisation à but non-lucratif chargé de promouvoir la compatibilité, c’est-à-dire l’interfonctionnement, des technologies du World Wide Web telles...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | W3C |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \du.blə.ve.tʁwa.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “W3C” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for W3C is 3 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.blə.ve.tʁwa.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #70,312 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Le World Wide Web Consortium, un organisme de standardisation à but non-lucratif chargé de promouvoir la compatibilité, c’est-à-dire l’interfonctionnement, des technologies du World Wide Web telles...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for W3C in our 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is W3C, spelled W-3-C.
Definition
- 1Le World Wide Web Consortium, un organisme de standardisation à but non-lucratif chargé de promouvoir la compatibilité, c’est-à-dire l’interfonctionnement, des technologies du World Wide Web telles que HTML, CSS, XML, RDF, SPARQL, PNG et SVG.
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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Using “W3C”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-3-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \du.blə.ve.tʁwa.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.