who
\ˈhu\
The verdict
“who” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,100) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,100
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-who · who · French
who · rank #9,100 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,100
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH watch
Nearest frequency peer: watch (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “who”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- walker
walker
90,904 corpus weight
- was
was
90,903 corpus weight
- watch
watch
90,902 corpus weight
- who
who
90,901 corpus weight
- écarter
écarter
90,900 corpus weight
- épicerie
épicerie
90,899 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “who” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | who |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ˈhu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “who” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for who is neighbouring look-alikes ("wu", "wo", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ˈhu\. Frequency #9,100 among 549 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Qui.".
who doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wu", "wo", "wp", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is who, spelled W-H-O.
Definition
- 1Qui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how who appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Magic mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?
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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- "who" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "wu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #9,100 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.