waouh

\waw\

/\waw\/ intj

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The verdict

“waouh” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,442
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjection qui exprime l’étonnement, l’admiration.

Corpus desk

Index FR-waouh · waouh · French

waouh · rank #24,442 · 6 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,442
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH wallons

Nearest frequency peer: wallons (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « waouh »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « waouh » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

waouh vs wash
60% similar
waouh vs watch
60% similar
waouh vs wouah
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for waouh
PropertyValue
Headwordwaouh
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\waw\
Letters5
Frequency rank#24,442
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « waouh »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).waouhse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « wallons » (#24,441), « wave » (#24,443), « végétarienne » (#24,440). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « waouh » est au #24,442. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around waouh (IPA \waw\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #24,442 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Interjection qui exprime l’étonnement, l’admiration.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for waouh, with forms such as "awouh", "waohu", and "waouhh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "wash", "watch", "wouah", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is waouh, spelled W-A-O-U-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Interjection qui exprime l’étonnement, l’admiration.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Waouh ! Elle est chouette, ta nouvelle voiture !
  2. Waouh ! hurla l'homme en lançant son chapeau melon au-dessus de sa tête. On est arrivés! Bonjour, voisins.

Synonyms

mazetteouah

This word in other languages

wow(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • awouh
  • waohu
  • waouhh
  • wauoh
  • woauh
  • wwaouh

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of waouh - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

awouh2waohu2waouhh1wauoh2woauh2wwaouh1
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "waouh"?
"waouh" is spelled W-A-O-U-H. The IPA pronunciation is \waw\.
What does "waouh" mean?
As an interjection, "waouh" means: Interjection qui exprime l’étonnement, l’admiration.
What words are commonly confused with "waouh"?
"waouh" is commonly confused with "wash", "watch", "wouah". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "waouh"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "waouh" is \waw\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "waouh" come from?
"waouh" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vécus#24,439wilde#24,445Yoann#24,447vexer#24,431

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

yard6 variantsvaine6 variantsagora6 variantstops6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list