Waldemar
The verdict
“Waldemar” is uncommon French (frequency #75,350 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,350
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waldemar · Waldemar · French
Waldemar · rank #75,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,350
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wahhabites
Nearest frequency peer: Wahhabites (-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 « Waldemar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vy
vy
24,654 corpus weight
- végétations
végétations
24,653 corpus weight
- Wahhabites
Wahhabites
24,652 corpus weight
- Waldemar
Waldemar
24,651 corpus weight
- waza
waza
24,650 corpus weight
- workout
workout
24,648 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Waldemar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Waldemar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Waldemar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Waldemar is uncommon French at frequency #75,350 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Waldemar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Waldemar, spelled W-A-L-D-E-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Waldemar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si nous insistons sur l’élément plaisir c’est parce que les privations de Waldemar ne sont pas absolues.
– Ça représente quoi ? demanda Waldemar, le plus âgé.
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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