wander
\ˈvandɐ\
The verdict
“wander” is uncommon French (frequency #91,289 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,289
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wandern.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wander · wander · French
wander · rank #91,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,289
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wallach
Nearest frequency peer: Wallach (-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 « wander »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vosgiennes
vosgiennes
8,715 corpus weight
- voyageais
voyageais
8,714 corpus weight
- Wallach
Wallach
8,713 corpus weight
- wander
wander
8,712 corpus weight
- wanderlust
wanderlust
8,711 corpus weight
- webmail
webmail
8,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wander » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈvandɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wander » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wander is uncommon French at frequency #91,289 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈvandɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for wander in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is wander, spelled W-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wandern.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de wandern.
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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