winch
\win(t)ʃ\
The verdict
“winch” is uncommon French (frequency #54,334 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,334
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équipement fixe placé sur le pont d’un voilier qui permet de démultiplier la traction exercée par l’équipage sur les cordages (écoute, drisse, bras de spinnaker) utilisés pour contrôler la voilure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-winch · winch · French
winch · rank #54,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,334
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wessex
Nearest frequency peer: Wessex (-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 « winch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- VPS
VPS
45,671 corpus weight
- vérifions
vérifions
45,669 corpus weight
- Wessex
Wessex
45,668 corpus weight
- winch
winch
45,667 corpus weight
- wir
wir
45,666 corpus weight
- wizard
wizard
45,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « winch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | winch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \win(t)ʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « winch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
winch is uncommon French at frequency #54,334 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \win(t)ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for winch in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is winch, spelled W-I-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1Équipement fixe placé sur le pont d’un voilier qui permet de démultiplier la traction exercée par l’équipage sur les cordages (écoute, drisse, bras de spinnaker) utilisés pour contrôler la voilure.
- 2Treuil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how winch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Quand je te le dirai, tu tireras sur la corde pour monter la grande voile », ou encore « tu pourras resserrer le winch avec la manivelle ».
Je préfère choquer et border. Je suis plus à l’aise avec les winchs.
This word in other languages
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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