warm
\varm\
The verdict
“warm” is uncommon French (frequency #51,214 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,214
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaud, chaude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-warm · warm · French
warm · rank #51,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,214
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wadi
Nearest frequency peer: wadi (-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 « warm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voto
voto
48,792 corpus weight
- vulgaris
vulgaris
48,791 corpus weight
- vénèrent
vénèrent
48,790 corpus weight
- vérifiera
vérifiera
48,789 corpus weight
- wadi
wadi
48,788 corpus weight
- warm
warm
48,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « warm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \varm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « warm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
warm is uncommon French at frequency #51,214 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \varm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
warm has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 warm, spelled W-A-R-M.
Definition
- 1Chaud, chaude.
- 2Chaud, brillant et vigoureux, tirant vers le rouge, l’orange ou le jaune, caractérise une couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how warm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es ist warm hier.
Mir ist warm. / Es ist mir warm.
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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