width
\ˈwɪdθ\
The verdict
“width” is uncommon French (frequency #57,690 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,690
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Largeur, mesure de largeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-width · width · French
width · rank #57,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,690
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Whelan
Nearest frequency peer: Whelan (-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 « width »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- waka
waka
42,314 corpus weight
- Whelan
Whelan
42,312 corpus weight
- width
width
42,311 corpus weight
- wisigoths
wisigoths
42,310 corpus weight
- witte
witte
42,309 corpus weight
- Younès
Younès
42,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « width » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | width |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɪdθ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « width » en français
Rare enough to double-check
width is uncommon French at frequency #57,690 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɪdθ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Largeur, mesure de largeur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for width in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is width, spelled W-I-D-T-H.
Definition
- 1Largeur, mesure de largeur.
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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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