widow
\ˈwɪd.əʊ\
The verdict
“widow” is uncommon French (frequency #61,227 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,227
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Veuve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-widow · widow · French
widow · rank #61,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wedge
Nearest frequency peer: wedge (-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 « widow »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Voigt
Voigt
38,778 corpus weight
- vénérés
vénérés
38,776 corpus weight
- wedge
wedge
38,775 corpus weight
- widow
widow
38,774 corpus weight
- Wladimir
Wladimir
38,773 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
38,772 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « widow » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | widow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɪd.əʊ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « widow » en français
Rare enough to double-check
widow is uncommon French at frequency #61,227 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɪd.əʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Veuve.".
widow doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 widow, spelled W-I-D-O-W.
Definition
- 1Veuve.
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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