wahoo
The verdict
“wahoo” is uncommon French (frequency #97,550 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,550
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Autre nom du thazard noir, poisson de la famille des scombridés, de nom scientifique Acanthocybium solandri.
| 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) |
Where “wahoo” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wahoo is uncommon French at frequency #97,550 among 27,995 “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.
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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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Using “wahoo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-A-H-O-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.