Waterhouse
\ˈwɔːtəˌhaʊs\
The verdict
“Waterhouse” is uncommon French (frequency #72,834 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,834
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waterhouse · Waterhouse · French
Waterhouse · rank #72,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,834
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vénerie
Nearest frequency peer: vénerie (-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 « Waterhouse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- volumétrique
volumétrique
27,170 corpus weight
- voudrons
voudrons
27,169 corpus weight
- vénerie
vénerie
27,168 corpus weight
- Waterhouse
Waterhouse
27,167 corpus weight
- wenn
wenn
27,166 corpus weight
- Whittaker
Whittaker
27,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Waterhouse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Waterhouse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɔːtəˌhaʊs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Waterhouse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Waterhouse is uncommon French at frequency #72,834 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈwɔːtəˌhaʊs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Waterhouse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Waterhouse, spelled W-A-T-E-R-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Waterhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Daily Mail a dévoilé, mardi, des photos de Robert et sa compagne, Suki Waterhouse, 32 ans, en train de se promener avec une poussette à Los Angeles.
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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