waren
\ˈvaːʁən\
The verdict
“waren” is uncommon French (frequency #99,758 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,758
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de sein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waren · waren · French
waren · rank #99,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,758
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Warin
Nearest frequency peer: Warin (+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 « waren »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wag
wag
246 corpus weight
- wagonnets
wagonnets
245 corpus weight
- waren
waren
243 corpus weight
- Warin
Warin
242 corpus weight
- Wassim
Wassim
241 corpus weight
- webdocument…
webdocumentaire
239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « waren » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waren |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈvaːʁən\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « waren » en français
Rare enough to double-check
waren is uncommon French at frequency #99,758 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈvaːʁən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for waren in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is waren, spelled W-A-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de sein.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de sein.
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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