Wiltz
\vilts\
The verdict
“Wiltz” is uncommon French (frequency #88,232 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,232
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wiltz · Wiltz · French
Wiltz · rank #88,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,232
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Winnicott
Nearest frequency peer: Winnicott (+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 « Wiltz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wiktionnaire
Wiktionnaire
11,772 corpus weight
- wilden
wilden
11,771 corpus weight
- Wiltz
Wiltz
11,769 corpus weight
- Winnicott
Winnicott
11,768 corpus weight
- WK
WK
11,767 corpus weight
- Wurst
Wurst
11,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wiltz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wiltz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vilts\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wiltz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wiltz is uncommon French at frequency #88,232 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vilts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Wiltz, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Wiltz, spelled W-I-L-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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