welker
\ˈvɛlkɐ\
The verdict
“welker” is uncommon French (frequency #90,308 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,308
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comparatif de welk, prédicat de tous les genres au singulier et au pluriel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-welker · welker · French
welker · rank #90,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,308
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,995
- PHOTO-FINISH Weah
Nearest frequency peer: Weah (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “welker”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- waifu
waifu
9,697 corpus weight
- wakeboard
wakeboard
9,696 corpus weight
- Weah
Weah
9,694 corpus weight
- welker
welker
9,693 corpus weight
- wer
wer
9,692 corpus weight
- Werk
Werk
9,691 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “welker” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | welker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈvɛlkɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “welker” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
welker is uncommon French at frequency #90,308 among 27,995 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈvɛlkɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
welker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 welker, spelled W-E-L-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Comparatif de welk, prédicat de tous les genres au singulier et au pluriel.
- 2Datif féminin singulier de la déclinaison forte de welk.
- 3Génitif féminin singulier de la déclinaison forte de welk.
- 4Génitif pluriel (à tous les genres) de la déclinaison forte de welk.
- 5Nominatif masculin singulier de la déclinaison forte de welk.
- 6Nominatif masculin singulier de la déclinaison mixte de welk.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "welker", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.