Wesen
\ˈveːzn̩\
The verdict
“Wesen” is uncommon French (frequency #88,226 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,226
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wesen · Wesen · French
Wesen · rank #88,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,226
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wage
Nearest frequency peer: wage (-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 « Wesen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vre
vre
11,779 corpus weight
- wage
wage
11,777 corpus weight
- Wesen
Wesen
11,775 corpus weight
- wicca
wicca
11,773 corpus weight
- Wiktionnaire
Wiktionnaire
11,772 corpus weight
- wilden
wilden
11,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wesen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wesen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈveːzn̩\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wesen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wesen is uncommon French at frequency #88,226 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈveːzn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être.".
Wesen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Wesen, spelled W-E-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wesen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Und Thomas von Aquin schließt sich ihm in der Auffassung an, die Frau sei ein «verfehlter Mann», ein «zufälliges Wesen». Das gleiche symbolisiert auch die Geschichte der Genesis, in der Eva nach den Worten Bossuets aus einem «überzähligen Knochen» Adams hervorgezaubert wird. Die Menschheit ist männlich, und der Mann definiert die Frau nicht als solche, so…
Der Engländer begibt sich an einen Urlaubsort ausschließlich dann, wenn er sicher sein kann, dort andere Engländer anzutreffen. Darin befindet er sich im genauen Gegensatz zum Franzosen, jenem dermaßen oberflächlichen und von sich selber eingenommenen Wesen, dass ihm die Begegnung mit einem Landsmann im Ausland wirklich unerträglich ist.
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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