whiplash
\ˈwɪplæʃ\
The verdict
“whiplash” is uncommon French (frequency #66,426 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,426
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup de fouet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whiplash · whiplash · French
whiplash · rank #66,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH webcams
Nearest frequency peer: webcams (-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 « whiplash »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voluptueux
voluptueux
33,579 corpus weight
- webcams
webcams
33,576 corpus weight
- whiplash
whiplash
33,575 corpus weight
- wight
wight
33,574 corpus weight
- Wirth
Wirth
33,573 corpus weight
- Worley
Worley
33,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « whiplash » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whiplash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɪplæʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « whiplash » en français
Rare enough to double-check
whiplash is uncommon French at frequency #66,426 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɪplæʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for whiplash in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is whiplash, spelled W-H-I-P-L-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Coup de fouet.
- 2Coup du lapin, traumatisme cervical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how whiplash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He didn’t want the American prisoners to die. That plus the stress of capture, plus the whiplash surprise of the cordial treatment, plus a lot of good brandy, all conspired to loosen his tongue.
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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