wakeboard
\wɛk.bɔʁd\
The verdict
“wakeboard” is uncommon French (frequency #90,305 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,305
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport de glisse sur l’eau, sur une courte planche de surf, tiré via une corde par un bateau ou un système de câbles (téléski).
Corpus desk
Index FR-wakeboard · wakeboard · French
wakeboard · rank #90,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH waifu
Nearest frequency peer: waifu (-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 « wakeboard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vénalité
vénalité
9,699 corpus weight
- waifu
waifu
9,697 corpus weight
- wakeboard
wakeboard
9,696 corpus weight
- Weah
Weah
9,694 corpus weight
- welker
welker
9,693 corpus weight
- wer
wer
9,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wakeboard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wakeboard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛk.bɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wakeboard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wakeboard is uncommon French at frequency #90,305 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɛk.bɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport de glisse sur l’eau, sur une courte planche de surf, tiré via une corde par un bateau ou un système de câbles (téléski).".
wakeboard has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 wakeboard, spelled W-A-K-E-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Sport de glisse sur l’eau, sur une courte planche de surf, tiré via une corde par un bateau ou un système de câbles (téléski).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wakeboard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces Jeux mondiaux, reconnus par le Comité international olympique, sont considérés comme l’antichambre des Jeux olympiques. Des disciplines telles que le karaté, le squash, la pétanque ou le wakeboard y patientent en espérant gagner l’Olympe.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).