weapons
\ˈwɛp.ənz\
The verdict
“weapons” is uncommon French (frequency #79,855 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,855
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de weapon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-weapons · weapons · French
weapons · rank #79,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,855
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wiesel
Nearest frequency peer: Wiesel (+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 « weapons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- védas
védas
20,150 corpus weight
- waterman
waterman
20,148 corpus weight
- weapons
weapons
20,146 corpus weight
- Wiesel
Wiesel
20,145 corpus weight
- willing
willing
20,144 corpus weight
- wilt
wilt
20,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « weapons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weapons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɛp.ənz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « weapons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
weapons is uncommon French at frequency #79,855 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɛp.ənz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de weapon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for weapons in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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's etymology isn't recorded, 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 weapons, spelled W-E-A-P-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de weapon.
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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