wenn
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#72,835
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
wenn is aFrenchconj. It means: Indique la temporalité, l’action de la principale se déroule en même temps ou juste après celle de la subordonnée : Quand, lorsque, dès que. Pronounced \vɛn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wenn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | \vɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for wenn is 4 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #72,835 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wenn in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 wenn, spelled W-E-N-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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).
Frequency rank: #72,835 in French
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