welters

\vɛl.tɛʁ\

/\vɛl.tɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“welters” is uncommon French (frequency #99,763 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,763
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-welters · welters · French

welters · rank #99,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,763
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH webdocumentai…

Nearest frequency peer: webdocumentaire (-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 « welters »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for welters
PropertyValue
Headwordwelters
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\vɛl.tɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#99,763
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « welters » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).welterstombe 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: « webdocumentaire » (#99,762), « Whiteley » (#99,765), « Wassim » (#99,760). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « welters » est au #99,763. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

welters is uncommon French at frequency #99,763 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛl.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de welter.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for welters, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is welters, spelled W-E-L-T-E-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de welter.

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 "welters"?
"welters" is spelled W-E-L-T-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛl.tɛʁ\.
What does "welters" mean?
As an adjective, "welters" means: Pluriel de welter.
How do you pronounce "welters"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "welters" is \vɛl.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "welters" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

workman#99,770XIIIème#99,772Yoshino#99,775viseurs#99,746

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list