wedge
\wɛdʒ\
The verdict
“wedge” is uncommon French (frequency #61,226 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,226
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de club, fers dont le loft correspond à un angle de plus de 44 degrés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wedge · wedge · French
wedge · rank #61,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,226
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vénérés
Nearest frequency peer: vénérés (-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 « wedge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Voigt
Voigt
38,778 corpus weight
- vénérés
vénérés
38,776 corpus weight
- wedge
wedge
38,775 corpus weight
- widow
widow
38,774 corpus weight
- Wladimir
Wladimir
38,773 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
38,772 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wedge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wedge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛdʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wedge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wedge is uncommon French at frequency #61,226 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɛdʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wedge, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is wedge, spelled W-E-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1Type de club, fers dont le loft correspond à un angle de plus de 44 degrés.
- 2Sorte d'enceinte acoustique posée au sol, utilisée comme retour de scène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wedge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Située à Carlsbad en Californie et spécialisée dans la fabrication d'équipement de golf, cette compagnie fabrique des bois, des fers, des wedges, des putters, des balles de golf et licencie son nom pour ce qui concerne l'habillement, les chaussures, les chronomètres et les accessoires.
Un wedge a une ébénisterie triangulaire qui offre deux angles de diffusion au sol à 30° et 45° pour un musicien assis ou debout. Le haut-parleur est filtré généralement en dessous de 80 Hz afin de réduire les effets de couplage au sol qui tendent à renforcer le grave, […].
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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