whom
\hum\
The verdict
“whom” is uncommon French (frequency #87,257 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,257
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que, forme objet de who « qui ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-whom · whom · French
whom · rank #87,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,257
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whig
Nearest frequency peer: whig (-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 « whom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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warrants
12,747 corpus weight
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Welle
12,746 corpus weight
- whig
whig
12,745 corpus weight
- whom
whom
12,744 corpus weight
- wieder
wieder
12,743 corpus weight
- Winterthur
Winterthur
12,741 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « whom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \hum\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « whom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
whom is uncommon French at frequency #87,257 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \hum\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for whom, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is whom, spelled W-H-O-M.
Definition
- 1Que, forme objet de who « qui ».
- 2Qui avec une préposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how whom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the second excerpt transcribed below, Tom Cruise is talking about his work with fellow Hollywood actor Dustin Hoffman, whom he refers to simply as Dustin.
Note : omis, ou remplacé par who/that, dans le langage courant.
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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