wenn
\vɛn\
The verdict
“wenn” is uncommon French (frequency #72,835 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,835
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indique la temporalité, l’action de la principale se déroule en même temps ou juste après celle de la subordonnée : Quand, lorsque, dès que.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wenn · wenn · French
wenn · rank #72,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,835
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Waterhouse
Nearest frequency peer: Waterhouse (-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 « wenn »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voudrons
voudrons
27,169 corpus weight
- vénerie
vénerie
27,168 corpus weight
- Waterhouse
Waterhouse
27,167 corpus weight
- wenn
wenn
27,166 corpus weight
- Whittaker
Whittaker
27,165 corpus weight
- wig
wig
27,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wenn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wenn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \vɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wenn » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wenn is uncommon French at frequency #72,835 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed \vɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
wenn has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is wenn, spelled W-E-N-N.
Definition
- 1Indique la temporalité, l’action de la principale se déroule en même temps ou juste après celle de la subordonnée : Quand, lorsque, dès que.
- 2Indique la temporalité, l’action de la principale se déroule chaque fois qu’intervient celle de la subordonnée : Quand, lorsque, (à) chaque fois que que, dès que.
- 3Indique la condition, le présupposé : Si.
- 4Indique la concession avec auch, doch, schon, gleich (wenn … auch, wenn … doch, wenn … schon, wenn … gleich) : Bien que, même si, alors que.
- 5(wenn … nur, wenn … doch, wenn … bloß) Indique le souhait, souvent avec le subjonctif II et avec nur, doch, bloß : Si (seulement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wenn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich werde dir Bescheid sagen, wenn sie ankommt.
Wenn ich Nachricht von ihr bekommen habe, rufe ich dich an.
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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