whose
\ˈhuz\
The verdict
“whose” is uncommon French (frequency #73,649 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,649
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À qui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whose · whose · French
whose · rank #73,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,649
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vérin
Nearest frequency peer: vérin (-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 « whose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voyagiste
voyagiste
26,356 corpus weight
- Voynet
Voynet
26,355 corpus weight
- Vuillemin
Vuillemin
26,354 corpus weight
- vérin
vérin
26,353 corpus weight
- whose
whose
26,352 corpus weight
- widget
widget
26,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « whose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈhuz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « whose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
whose is uncommon French at frequency #73,649 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈhuz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À qui.".
Zero misspellings are on record for whose in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is whose, spelled W-H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1À qui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how whose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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