welter
\vɛl.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“welter” is uncommon French (frequency #76,233 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,233
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catégorie de poids en boxe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-welter · welter · French
welter · rank #76,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,233
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH webinaire
Nearest frequency peer: webinaire (-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 « welter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- véganes
véganes
23,773 corpus weight
- vénéneuse
vénéneuse
23,772 corpus weight
- Vézère
Vézère
23,771 corpus weight
- webinaire
webinaire
23,769 corpus weight
- welter
welter
23,768 corpus weight
- Werke
Werke
23,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « welter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | welter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛl.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « welter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
welter is uncommon French at frequency #76,233 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛl.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catégorie de poids en boxe.".
welter has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is welter, spelled W-E-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Catégorie de poids en boxe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how welter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poids welter.
Synonyms
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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