Wikisource
\wi.ki.suʁs\
The verdict
“Wikisource” is uncommon French (frequency #94,396 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,396
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Projet de bibliothèque numérique, soutenu par la fondation Wikimedia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wikisource · Wikisource · French
Wikisource · rank #94,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,396
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wendigo
Nearest frequency peer: wendigo (-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 « Wikisource »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- walnut
walnut
5,610 corpus weight
- wendigo
wendigo
5,606 corpus weight
- Wikisource
Wikisource
5,605 corpus weight
- Wissant
Wissant
5,604 corpus weight
- Woippy
Woippy
5,603 corpus weight
- worse
worse
5,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wikisource » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wikisource |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wi.ki.suʁs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wikisource » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wikisource is uncommon French at frequency #94,396 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \wi.ki.suʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Projet de bibliothèque numérique, soutenu par la fondation Wikimedia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Wikisource in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Wikisource, spelled W-I-K-I-S-O-U-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Projet de bibliothèque numérique, soutenu par la fondation Wikimedia.
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); 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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