willa
\ˈwi.lːɑ\
The verdict
“willa” is uncommon French (frequency #74,480 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,480
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gré, volonté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-willa · willa · French
willa · rank #74,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,480
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whether
Nearest frequency peer: whether (-2 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 « willa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wakanda
Wakanda
25,526 corpus weight
- whether
whether
25,523 corpus weight
- willa
willa
25,521 corpus weight
- yah
yah
25,519 corpus weight
- yaka
yaka
25,518 corpus weight
- yara
yara
25,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « willa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | willa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwi.lːɑ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « willa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
willa is uncommon French at frequency #74,480 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwi.lːɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
willa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is willa, spelled W-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Gré, volonté.
- 2Désir, souhait.
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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