Werther
The verdict
“Werther” is uncommon French (frequency #50,586 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,586
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et commune d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-werther · Werther · French
Werther · rank #50,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,586
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH webmaster
Nearest frequency peer: webmaster (-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 « Werther »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- végétaliens
végétaliens
49,420 corpus weight
- vénérée
vénérée
49,419 corpus weight
- webmaster
webmaster
49,416 corpus weight
- Werther
Werther
49,415 corpus weight
- witt
witt
49,413 corpus weight
- worry
worry
49,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Werther » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Werther |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Werther » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Werther is uncommon French at frequency #50,586 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Werther, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Werther, spelled W-E-R-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ville et commune d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
- 2Commune d’Allemagne, située dans la Thuringe.
- 3Personnage principal du roman Les Souffrances du jeune Werther de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Werther appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ville enfermait l’horizon de ses silhouettes graves ; le bruit des cloches, des sonneries gothiques accompagnaient ces sortes de promenades allemandes où je n’étais pas Werther, où je crois que Madeleine aurait valu Charlotte. Je ne lui parlais point de Klopstock, et jamais ma main ne se posa sur la sienne autrement que comme une main de frère.
Au régiment nous plaisantions de Werther, un héros du temps, qui nous faisait pitié, à nous autres officiers !
This word in other languages
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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