warning

/\waʁ.niŋ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,657

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

warning is aFrenchnoun. It means: Feux de détresse. Pronounced \waʁ.niŋ\. Often confused with working and walking.

Key facts for warning
PropertyValue
Headwordwarning
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\waʁ.niŋ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,657
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of warning in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for warning is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \waʁ.niŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,657 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for warning, with forms such as "awrning", "wanring", and "warinng". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "working", "walking", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is warning, spelled W-A-R-N-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Feux de détresse.
  2. 2
    Avertissement signalant une erreur considérée comme peu grave, renvoyé par un compilateur (lors de la compilation d’un programme), ou par un interpréteur.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: awrning,wanring,warinng,warnign,warningg,warninng,warnnig,warnning,warrning,wraning,wwarning

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for warning

Misspelling Variants of "warning"

awrning7wanring7warinng7warnign7warningg8warninng8warnnig7warnning8
Misspelling Variants of "warning"

Frequency rank: #36,657 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "warning"?
"warning" is spelled W-A-R-N-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \waʁ.niŋ\.
What does "warning" mean?
As a noun, "warning" means: Feux de détresse.
What words are commonly confused with "warning"?
"warning" is commonly confused with "working", "walking". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "warning"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "warning" is \waʁ.niŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "warning" come from?
"warning" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.