wahoo
The verdict
“wahoo” is uncommon French (frequency #97,550 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,550
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre nom du thazard noir, poisson de la famille des scombridés, de nom scientifique Acanthocybium solandri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wahoo · wahoo · French
wahoo · rank #97,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,550
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vînt
Nearest frequency peer: vînt (-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 « wahoo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- VSL
VSL
2,454 corpus weight
- végétalisme
végétalisme
2,453 corpus weight
- vînt
vînt
2,452 corpus weight
- wahoo
wahoo
2,451 corpus weight
- Walhalla
Walhalla
2,450 corpus weight
- warlock
warlock
2,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wahoo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wahoo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wahoo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wahoo is uncommon French at frequency #97,550 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre nom du thazard noir, poisson de la famille des scombridés, de nom scientifique Acanthocybium solandri.".
wahoo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 wahoo, spelled W-A-H-O-O.
Definition
- 1Autre nom du thazard noir, poisson de la famille des scombridés, de nom scientifique Acanthocybium solandri.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wahoo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maquereaux, bonites, thazards, wahoos et thons sont tous membres de la famille des scombridés.
Quand le fil se déroule à toute vitesse sur plusieurs centaines de mètres, il y a de bonnes chances pour que ce soit un wahoo au bout.
Synonyms
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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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