wieder
\ˈviːdɐ\
The verdict
“wieder” is uncommon French (frequency #87,258 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,258
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Encore une fois, de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wieder · wieder · French
wieder · rank #87,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,258
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whom
Nearest frequency peer: whom (-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 « wieder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- warrants
warrants
12,747 corpus weight
- Welle
Welle
12,746 corpus weight
- whig
whig
12,745 corpus weight
- whom
whom
12,744 corpus weight
- wieder
wieder
12,743 corpus weight
- Winterthur
Winterthur
12,741 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wieder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wieder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈviːdɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wieder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wieder is uncommon French at frequency #87,258 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈviːdɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for wieder in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is wieder, spelled W-I-E-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Encore une fois, de nouveau.
- 2Adverbe qui indique qu'un état antérieur est rétabli, comme re- en français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wieder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat wieder gewonnen.
Ich bien gleich wieder da.
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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