weise

noun

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The verdict

“weise” is uncommon French (frequency #68,739 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,739
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-weise · weise · French

weise · rank #68,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,739
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH werden

Nearest frequency peer: werden (+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 « weise »

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 « weise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for weise
PropertyValue
Headwordweise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#68,739
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « weise » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.weisetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « werden » (#68,740), « vérifiait » (#68,737), « végétalisation » (#68,736). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « weise » est au #68,739. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

weise is uncommon French at frequency #68,739 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Motte.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for weise in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is weise, spelled W-E-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Motte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. une weise de terre.

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 "weise"?
"weise" is spelled W-E-I-S-E.
What does "weise" mean?
As a noun, "weise" means: Motte.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ursus#68,719Ubaye#68,716Tycho#68,7144chan#68,766

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list