wilt
[wɪlt]
The verdict
“wilt” is uncommon French (frequency #79,858 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,858
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se faner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wilt · wilt · French
wilt · rank #79,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH willing
Nearest frequency peer: willing (-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 « wilt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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weapons
20,146 corpus weight
- Wiesel
Wiesel
20,145 corpus weight
- willing
willing
20,144 corpus weight
- wilt
wilt
20,143 corpus weight
- Wordsworth
Wordsworth
20,142 corpus weight
- workflow
workflow
20,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wilt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wilt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [wɪlt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wilt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wilt is uncommon French at frequency #79,858 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [wɪlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wilt in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is wilt, spelled W-I-L-T.
Definition
- 1Se faner.
- 2Fatiguer (devenir fatigué).
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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