wilayas
\vi.la.ja\
The verdict
“wilayas” is uncommon French (frequency #63,459 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,459
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de wilaya.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wilayas · wilayas · French
wilayas · rank #63,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,459
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Winslet
Nearest frequency peer: Winslet (+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 « wilayas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- warp
warp
36,545 corpus weight
- wilayas
wilayas
36,542 corpus weight
- Winslet
Winslet
36,541 corpus weight
- Yseult
Yseult
36,540 corpus weight
- yue
yue
36,539 corpus weight
- zaïrois
zaïrois
36,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wilayas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wilayas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.la.ja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wilayas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wilayas is uncommon French at frequency #63,459 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.la.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de wilaya.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wilayas, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is wilayas, spelled W-I-L-A-Y-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de wilaya.
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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