wag
\vaːk\
The verdict
“wag” is uncommon French (frequency #99,755 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,755
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wagen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wag · wag · French
wag · rank #99,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,755
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wagonnets
Nearest frequency peer: wagonnets (+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 « wag »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vocaliste
vocaliste
250 corpus weight
- vrmt
vrmt
249 corpus weight
- vulgarisate…
vulgarisateurs
248 corpus weight
- wag
wag
246 corpus weight
- wagonnets
wagonnets
245 corpus weight
- waren
waren
243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wag » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vaːk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #99,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wag » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wag is uncommon French at frequency #99,755 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vaːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wagen.".
wag doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is wag, spelled W-A-G.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wagen.
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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