wep
\wɛp\
The verdict
“wep” is uncommon French (frequency #80,780 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,780
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de weep.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wep · wep · French
wep · rank #80,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,780
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH weapon
Nearest frequency peer: weapon (-2 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 « wep »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vouant
vouant
19,226 corpus weight
- voûtés
voûtés
19,225 corpus weight
- vénérait
vénérait
19,224 corpus weight
- weapon
weapon
19,223 corpus weight
- wep
wep
19,221 corpus weight
- Wissous
Wissous
19,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wep » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \wɛp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #80,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wep » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wep is uncommon French at frequency #80,780 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \wɛp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wep in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is wep, spelled W-E-P.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de weep.
- 2Participe passé de weep.
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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