Wattrelos

\wa.tʁə.lo\

/\wa.tʁə.lo\/ name

The verdict

“Wattrelos” is uncommon French (frequency #58,358 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,358
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.

Corpus desk

Index FR-wattrelos · Wattrelos · French

Wattrelos · rank #58,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,358
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH wasabi

Nearest frequency peer: wasabi (-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 « Wattrelos »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wattrelos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Wattrelos
PropertyValue
HeadwordWattrelos
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\wa.tʁə.lo\
Letters9
Frequency rank#58,358
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Wattrelos » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Wattrelostombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « wasabi » (#58,357), « Whitehall » (#58,359), « véganisme » (#58,356). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « Wattrelos » est au #58,358. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Wattrelos is uncommon French at frequency #58,358 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \wa.tʁə.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wattrelos, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Wattrelos, spelled W-A-T-T-R-E-L-O-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Wattrelos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Depuis quand le chômage sévit-il dans Roubaix comme dans Wattrelos, privant de pain nombre de familles ouvrières ?

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Wattrelos"?
"Wattrelos" is spelled W-A-T-T-R-E-L-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is \wa.tʁə.lo\.
What does "Wattrelos" mean?
As a proper noun, "Wattrelos" means: Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
How do you pronounce "Wattrelos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Wattrelos" is \wa.tʁə.lo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Wattrelos" come from?
"Wattrelos" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Wattrelos", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list