Weller
The verdict
“Weller” is uncommon French (frequency #57,020 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,020
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-weller · Weller · French
Weller · rank #57,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,020
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH welfare
Nearest frequency peer: welfare (-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 « Weller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- xerox
xerox
42,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Weller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Weller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Weller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Weller is uncommon French at frequency #57,020 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Weller has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Weller, spelled W-E-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Weller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée, c’est de “raccrocher” les jeunes et de les rendre acteurs de ce changement de société afin de leur permettre de profiter des opportunités professionnelles qui en découlent, précise Marine Weller, coordinatrice de l’antenne parisienne de ce concept.
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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