wakeboard
\wɛk.bɔʁd\
The verdict
“wakeboard” is uncommon French (frequency #90,305 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,305
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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).
| 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) |
Where “wakeboard” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wakeboard is uncommon French at frequency #90,305 among 27,995 “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).
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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 “wakeboard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-A-K-E-B-O-A-R-D - 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.