whore
\hɔː\
The verdict
“whore” is uncommon French (frequency #72,012 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,012
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prostituée ; putain ; catin ; salope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whore · whore · French
whore · rank #72,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,012
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whigs
Nearest frequency peer: whigs (-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 « whore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wegener
Wegener
27,992 corpus weight
- whigs
whigs
27,990 corpus weight
- whore
whore
27,989 corpus weight
- worker
worker
27,988 corpus weight
- writers
writers
27,987 corpus weight
- Xabi
Xabi
27,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « whore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɔː\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « whore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
whore is uncommon French at frequency #72,012 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hɔː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prostituée ; putain ; catin ; salope.".
No misspelling variants are generated for whore in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 whore, spelled W-H-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Prostituée ; putain ; catin ; salope.
Synonyms
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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