widgets
\wi.dʒɛt\
The verdict
“widgets” is uncommon French (frequency #86,320 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,320
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de widget.
Corpus desk
Index FR-widgets · widgets · French
widgets · rank #86,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,320
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wellens
Nearest frequency peer: Wellens (-2 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 « widgets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wannabe
wannabe
13,687 corpus weight
- WCs
WCs
13,684 corpus weight
- Wellens
Wellens
13,683 corpus weight
- widgets
widgets
13,681 corpus weight
- yod
yod
13,678 corpus weight
- Zaoui
Zaoui
13,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « widgets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | widgets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wi.dʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « widgets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
widgets is uncommon French at frequency #86,320 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wi.dʒɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de widget.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for widgets, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 widgets, spelled W-I-D-G-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de widget.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).