waou
\waw\
The verdict
“waou” is uncommon French (frequency #60,475 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,475
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe alternative de waouh.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waou · waou · French
waou · rank #60,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,475
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH végétative
Nearest frequency peer: végétative (-2 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 « waou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vivrons
vivrons
39,530 corpus weight
- voili
voili
39,529 corpus weight
- végétative
végétative
39,528 corpus weight
- waou
waou
39,526 corpus weight
- whistle
whistle
39,524 corpus weight
- wicked
wicked
39,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « waou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \waw\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « waou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
waou is uncommon French at frequency #60,475 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \waw\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orthographe alternative de waouh.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for waou, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is waou, spelled W-A-O-U.
Definition
- 1Orthographe alternative de waouh.
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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