whistle
\wɪsl̩\
The verdict
“whistle” is uncommon French (frequency #60,477 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,477
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sifflet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whistle · whistle · French
whistle · rank #60,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,477
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wicked
Nearest frequency peer: wicked (+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 « whistle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- végétative
végétative
39,528 corpus weight
- waou
waou
39,526 corpus weight
- whistle
whistle
39,524 corpus weight
- wicked
wicked
39,523 corpus weight
- Wissembourg
Wissembourg
39,521 corpus weight
- woke
woke
39,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « whistle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whistle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɪsl̩\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « whistle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
whistle is uncommon French at frequency #60,477 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɪsl̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sifflet.".
whistle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is whistle, spelled W-H-I-S-T-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sifflet.
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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