widget
\wi.dʒɛt\
The verdict
“widget” is uncommon French (frequency #73,650 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,650
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément de base d’une interface graphique comme un bouton par exemple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-widget · widget · French
widget · rank #73,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,650
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whose
Nearest frequency peer: whose (-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 « widget »
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 « widget » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | widget |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wi.dʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « widget » en français
Rare enough to double-check
widget is uncommon French at frequency #73,650 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wi.dʒɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for widget, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is widget, spelled W-I-D-G-E-T.
Definition
- 1Élément de base d’une interface graphique comme un bouton par exemple.
- 2Simple petit programme situé sur le bureau et permettant d’accomplir une tâche particulière (indiquer la météo, recherche un mot-clé sur le web).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).