wigwam
\wiɡ.wam\
The verdict
“wigwam” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type d’habitation traditionnelle construite par les Amérindiens semi-nomades d’Amérique du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wigwam · wigwam · French
wigwam · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wigwam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wiɡ.wam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
wigwam is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \wiɡ.wam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type d’habitation traditionnelle construite par les Amérindiens semi-nomades d’Amérique du Nord.".
wigwam has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is wigwam, spelled W-I-G-W-A-M.
Definition
- 1Type d’habitation traditionnelle construite par les Amérindiens semi-nomades d’Amérique du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wigwam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux rafraîchissements, le whisky et le gin, ils circulaient dans de petits verres d’étain, sans parler d’un punch gigantesque qui devait clore cette fête, dont les Indiens parleront longtemps dans leurs wigwams.
Avec la petite bande de six à sept gosses dont elle faisait partie, elle avait installé un vaste wigwam au centre de l'immense salon.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.