Wilmotte

name

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The verdict

“Wilmotte” is uncommon French (frequency #85,387 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,387
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-wilmotte · Wilmotte · French

Wilmotte · rank #85,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,387
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH WNBA

Nearest frequency peer: WNBA (+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 « Wilmotte »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wilmotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Wilmotte
PropertyValue
HeadwordWilmotte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#85,387
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Wilmotte » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Wilmottetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « WNBA » (#85,389), « WF » (#85,384), « Wevelgem » (#85,383). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « Wilmotte » est au #85,387. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Wilmotte is uncommon French at frequency #85,387 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Wilmotte in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Wilmotte, spelled W-I-L-M-O-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Wilmotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La fondation du VIA (Valorisation de l’innovation dans l’ameublement) chargée de promouvoir un design hexagonal en perte de vitesse depuis la fin des Trente Glorieuses est décisive, et permet à de nouveaux noms, aujourd’hui incontournables des amateurs de design, de se faire une place : Garouste et Bonetti, Martin Szekely, Philippe Stark, Jean-Michel Wilm…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Wilmotte"?
"Wilmotte" is spelled W-I-L-M-O-T-T-E.
What does "Wilmotte" mean?
As a proper noun, "Wilmotte" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Wilmotte" come from?
"Wilmotte" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Wilmotte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Wevelgem#85,383zibeline#85,395échangea#85,399écrémage#85,402

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list