Waterford
The verdict
“Waterford” is uncommon French (frequency #95,463 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,463
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d'Irlande situé dans le comté du même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waterford · Waterford · French
Waterford · rank #95,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,463
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wann
Nearest frequency peer: wann (-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 « Waterford »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- waf
waf
4,541 corpus weight
- wann
wann
4,539 corpus weight
- Waterford
Waterford
4,538 corpus weight
- Waziristan
Waziristan
4,536 corpus weight
- woodcock
woodcock
4,534 corpus weight
- woof
woof
4,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Waterford » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Waterford |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Waterford » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Waterford is uncommon French at frequency #95,463 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d'Irlande situé dans le comté du même nom.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Waterford in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Waterford, spelled W-A-T-E-R-F-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Ville d'Irlande situé dans le comté du même nom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Waterford appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cork, (le comté de) Géog. mod. pays d’Irlande, borné par les comtés de Waterford, de Tipperary, de Kerry, & par la mer.
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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