waker
\va.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“waker” is uncommon French (frequency #98,636 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,636
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot inventé par Pierre Palmade pour son sketch le Scrabble, illustré par l’expression fier comme un waker.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waker · waker · French
waker · rank #98,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,636
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vénérées
Nearest frequency peer: vénérées (-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 « waker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- virevolte
virevolte
1,369 corpus weight
- vitreuse
vitreuse
1,368 corpus weight
- volais
volais
1,367 corpus weight
- vénérées
vénérées
1,366 corpus weight
- waker
waker
1,365 corpus weight
- wallaby
wallaby
1,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « waker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « waker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
waker is uncommon French at frequency #98,636 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot inventé par Pierre Palmade pour son sketch le Scrabble, illustré par l’expression fier comme un waker.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for waker in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is waker, spelled W-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mot inventé par Pierre Palmade pour son sketch le Scrabble, illustré par l’expression fier comme un waker.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how waker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je reprends la route, fier comme un waker.
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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