wha
\ʍɑː\
The verdict
“wha” is uncommon French (frequency #84,432 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,432
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wha · wha · French
wha · rank #84,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,432
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH washing
Nearest frequency peer: washing (-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 « wha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- votives
votives
15,574 corpus weight
- walkyrie
walkyrie
15,572 corpus weight
- washing
washing
15,571 corpus weight
- wha
wha
15,569 corpus weight
- Winckler
Winckler
15,567 corpus weight
- Witz
Witz
15,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ʍɑː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wha is uncommon French at frequency #84,432 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \ʍɑː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui.".
No misspelling variants are generated for wha 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is wha, spelled W-H-A.
Definition
- 1Qui.
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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