wenigsten
\ˈveːnɪçstn̩\
The verdict
“wenigsten” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Superlatif déclinaison forte du génitif masculin au singulier de wenig.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wenigsten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈveːnɪçstn̩\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wenigsten” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for wenigsten is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈveːnɪçstn̩\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for wenigsten in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is wenigsten, spelled W-E-N-I-G-S-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Superlatif déclinaison forte du génitif masculin au singulier de wenig.
- 2Superlatif déclinaison forte de l’accusatif masculin au singulier de wenig.
- 3Superlatif déclinaison forte du génitif neutre au singulier de wenig.
- 4Superlatif déclinaison forte du datif de tous les genres au pluriel de wenig.
- 5Superlatif déclinaison faible du génitif de tous les genres au singulier de wenig.
- 6Superlatif déclinaison faible du datif de tous les genres au singulier de wenig.
- 7Superlatif déclinaison faible de l’accusatif masculin au singulier de wenig.
- 8Superlatif déclinaison faible de tous les cas et de tous les genres au pluriel de wenig.
- 9Superlatif déclinaison mixte du génitif de tous les genres au singulier de wenig.
- 10Superlatif déclinaison mixte du datif de tous genres au singulier de wenig.
- 11Superlatif déclinaison mixte de l’accusatif masculin au singulier de wenig.
- 12Superlatif déclinaison mixte de tous les cas et de tous les genres au pluriel de wenig.
- 13Superlatif prédicat de tous les genres au singulier et au pluriel de wenig, avec am.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is W-E-N-I-G-S-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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