wer
\tʁa.va.je\
The verdict
“wer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,309 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,309
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wer · wer · French
wer · rank #90,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,309
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH welker
Nearest frequency peer: welker (-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 « wer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- waifu
waifu
9,697 corpus weight
- wakeboard
wakeboard
9,696 corpus weight
- Weah
Weah
9,694 corpus weight
- welker
welker
9,693 corpus weight
- wer
wer
9,692 corpus weight
- Werk
Werk
9,691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.je\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #90,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wer is uncommon French at frequency #90,309 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁa.va.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Travailler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is wer, spelled W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Travailler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A/ les dirigeants ont le devoir de wer à la prévention des guerres, des conflits afin de sauvegarder la vie et la dignité des peuples, l'économie et les infrastructures,... ! Ça commence par le respect des accords, des résolutions, la médiation et la coopération internationale
Ah prcq on vit bien avec des subventions? Vous trouvez normal de wer 14h par jour à vous casser le dos et d'être obligés d'attendre des subventions pour survivre avec 400€/mois de revenus ? A part les gros céréaliers qui s'en sortent pas mal les autres se suicident ou vendent
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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