welfare
\ˈwɛlˌfɛə\
The verdict
“welfare” is uncommon French (frequency #57,019 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,019
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bien-être, bonheur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-welfare · welfare · French
welfare · rank #57,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,019
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Weller
Nearest frequency peer: Weller (+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 « welfare »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- VoIP
VoIP
42,987 corpus weight
- walkie
walkie
42,985 corpus weight
- welfare
welfare
42,982 corpus weight
- Weller
Weller
42,981 corpus weight
- Willems
Willems
42,979 corpus weight
- WM
WM
42,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « welfare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | welfare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɛlˌfɛə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « welfare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
welfare is uncommon French at frequency #57,019 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɛlˌfɛə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for welfare 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is welfare, spelled W-E-L-F-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bien-être, bonheur.
- 2Aide sociale.
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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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