wendigo
\wɛn.di.ɡo\
The verdict
“wendigo” is uncommon French (frequency #94,395 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,395
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature surnaturelle, maléfique et anthropophage, issue de la mythologie des autochtones algonquiens du Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wendigo · wendigo · French
wendigo · rank #94,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,395
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wikisource
Nearest frequency peer: Wikisource (+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 « wendigo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vénérienne
vénérienne
5,612 corpus weight
- walnut
walnut
5,610 corpus weight
- wendigo
wendigo
5,606 corpus weight
- Wikisource
Wikisource
5,605 corpus weight
- Wissant
Wissant
5,604 corpus weight
- Woippy
Woippy
5,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wendigo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wendigo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛn.di.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wendigo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wendigo is uncommon French at frequency #94,395 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɛn.di.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créature surnaturelle, maléfique et anthropophage, issue de la mythologie des autochtones algonquiens du Canada.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for wendigo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 wendigo, spelled W-E-N-D-I-G-O.
Definition
- 1Créature surnaturelle, maléfique et anthropophage, issue de la mythologie des autochtones algonquiens du Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wendigo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À quatre cents milles de là, en haut des rivières, ceux des « sauvages » qui avaient fui les missionnaires et les marchands étaient accroupis autour d’un feu de cyprès sec, devant leurs tentes, et promenaient leurs regards sur un monde encore rempli pour eux comme aux premiers jours de puissances occultes, mystérieuses : le Wendigo géant qui défend qu’on…
This word in other languages
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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