Whittaker
\wi.ta.kəʁ\
The verdict
“Whittaker” is uncommon French (frequency #72,836 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,836
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whittaker · Whittaker · French
Whittaker · rank #72,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,836
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wenn
Nearest frequency peer: wenn (-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 « Whittaker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vénerie
vénerie
27,168 corpus weight
- Waterhouse
Waterhouse
27,167 corpus weight
- wenn
wenn
27,166 corpus weight
- Whittaker
Whittaker
27,165 corpus weight
- wig
wig
27,164 corpus weight
- Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina
27,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Whittaker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Whittaker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wi.ta.kəʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Whittaker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Whittaker is uncommon French at frequency #72,836 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \wi.ta.kəʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Whittaker in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Whittaker, spelled W-H-I-T-T-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.
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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