waterproof
\wa.tɛʁ.pʁuf\
The verdict
“waterproof” is uncommon French (frequency #51,818 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,818
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résistant à l’eau, qui ne disparait ou ne s’abîme pas dans l’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-waterproof · waterproof · French
waterproof · rank #51,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,818
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Vézelay
Nearest frequency peer: Vézelay (-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 « waterproof »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- végane
végane
48,186 corpus weight
- Vézelay
Vézelay
48,184 corpus weight
- waterproof
waterproof
48,183 corpus weight
- Wentworth
Wentworth
48,181 corpus weight
- wheel
wheel
48,180 corpus weight
- worst
worst
48,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « waterproof » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waterproof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \wa.tɛʁ.pʁuf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « waterproof » en français
Rare enough to double-check
waterproof is uncommon French at frequency #51,818 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \wa.tɛʁ.pʁuf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Résistant à l’eau, qui ne disparait ou ne s’abîme pas dans l’eau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for waterproof in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is waterproof, spelled W-A-T-E-R-P-R-O-O-F.
Definition
- 1Résistant à l’eau, qui ne disparait ou ne s’abîme pas dans l’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how waterproof appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On y trouve des snipers de différentes couleurs, des fusils-mitrailleurs waterproof et des blindés à l’épreuve des assaillants et des manifestants.
Ce liner est aussi très très waterproof (vraiment fini les yeux de panda en fin de journée avec une tenue de 12h).
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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