Waldemar

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Waldemar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Waldemar
PropertyValue
HeadwordWaldemar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#75,350
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Waldemar » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Waldemartombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Wahhabites » (#75,349), « waza » (#75,351), « végétations » (#75,348). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « Waldemar » est au #75,350. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Waldemar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si nous insistons sur l’élément plaisir c’est parce que les privations de Waldemar ne sont pas absolues.
  2. – 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Waldemar"?
"Waldemar" is spelled W-A-L-D-E-M-A-R.
What does "Waldemar" mean?
As a proper noun, "Waldemar" means: Prénom masculin.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Waldemar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list