wat
\wat\
The verdict
“wat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,504) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,504
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temple, monastère ou école bouddhiste au Cambodge, au Laos ou en Thaïlande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wat · wat · French
wat · rank #21,504 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,504
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH végétariens
Nearest frequency peer: végétariens (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « wat »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- voudras
voudras
78,500 corpus weight
- vouée
vouée
78,499 corpus weight
- végétariens
végétariens
78,498 corpus weight
- wat
wat
78,497 corpus weight
- weed
weed
78,496 corpus weight
- Wes
Wes
78,495 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « wat » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wat\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « wat »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wat is neighbouring look-alikes ("we", "wc", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \wat\. Frequency #21,504 among 549 “W” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wat, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "we", "wc", "wu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is wat, spelled W-A-T.
Definition
- 1Temple, monastère ou école bouddhiste au Cambodge, au Laos ou en Thaïlande.
- 2Sorte de ragoût à base de légumes et de viandes (poulet, bœuf ou agneau), assaisonné avec des épices, typique des cuisines éthiopienne et érythréenne.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).