wapiti
\wa.pi.ti\
The verdict
“wapiti” is uncommon French (frequency #85,379 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,379
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand cerf du Canada et de Sibérie, de nom scientifique Cervus canadensis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wapiti · wapiti · French
wapiti · rank #85,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,379
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH waterfront
Nearest frequency peer: waterfront (+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 « wapiti »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vrak
vrak
14,627 corpus weight
- wapiti
wapiti
14,622 corpus weight
- waterfront
waterfront
14,621 corpus weight
- weld
weld
14,619 corpus weight
- Wevelgem
Wevelgem
14,618 corpus weight
- WF
WF
14,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wapiti » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wapiti |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.pi.ti\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wapiti » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wapiti is uncommon French at frequency #85,379 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.pi.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand cerf du Canada et de Sibérie, de nom scientifique Cervus canadensis.".
Zero misspellings are on record for wapiti in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is wapiti, spelled W-A-P-I-T-I.
Definition
- 1Grand cerf du Canada et de Sibérie, de nom scientifique Cervus canadensis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wapiti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces traces ont été laissées sur le sol par ces daims, que, nous autres chasseurs, nous appelons des daims rouges, et dont le nom indigène est « wapiti ». […]. De la distance à laquelle ils se trouvaient, Jasper Hobson, Mrs. Paulina Barnett et leurs compagnons pouvaient facilement distinguer le groupe des wapitis. C’étaient de magnifiques échantillons de c…
Dans les bas-fonds, au plus fourré de la broussaille, les hardes de caribous, d’orignaux ou de wapitis se grouperaient, têtes affrontées, afin de n’offrir au vent que des croupes qui, rythmiquement, grelotteraient pour se réchauffer.
This word in other languages
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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