Whitehorse
\waj.tɔʁs\
The verdict
“Whitehorse” is uncommon French (frequency #71,186 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,186
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du territoire canadien du Yukon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whitehorse · Whitehorse · French
Whitehorse · rank #71,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,186
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH yer
Nearest frequency peer: yer (+3 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 « Whitehorse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wawa
wawa
28,820 corpus weight
- weeds
weeds
28,819 corpus weight
- Whitehorse
Whitehorse
28,815 corpus weight
- yer
yer
28,812 corpus weight
- yesterday
yesterday
28,811 corpus weight
- yn
yn
28,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Whitehorse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Whitehorse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \waj.tɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Whitehorse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Whitehorse is uncommon French at frequency #71,186 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \waj.tɔʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Whitehorse has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Whitehorse, spelled W-H-I-T-E-H-O-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Capitale du territoire canadien du Yukon.
- 2Gouvernement du Yukon, basé dans cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Whitehorse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le record enregistré pour un 9 février à Whitehorse demeure celui de 1943. Ce jour-là le mercure dégringolé^([sic : a dégringolé]) a^([sic : à]) -49.4 °C, sans compter le refroidissement éolien. Le record pour un 10 février a été enregistré en 1979 avec un mercure à -43.9 °C.
Whitehorse étant plus au sud que Dawson, le soleil y dépasse la ligne d'horizon chaque jour de l'année, au moins quelques minutes..
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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