Winkler
The verdict
“Winkler” is uncommon French (frequency #64,879 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,879
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-winkler · Winkler · French
Winkler · rank #64,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,879
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Willi
Nearest frequency peer: Willi (-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 « Winkler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wasquehal
Wasquehal
35,126 corpus weight
- wharf
wharf
35,125 corpus weight
- Willi
Willi
35,124 corpus weight
- Winkler
Winkler
35,122 corpus weight
- XVIIème
XVIIème
35,120 corpus weight
- yakuzas
yakuzas
35,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Winkler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Winkler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Winkler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Winkler is uncommon French at frequency #64,879 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Winkler has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Winkler, spelled W-I-N-K-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Winkler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une annonce faite par Irwin Winkler, producteur historique de la franchise Rocky, lors d’un événement organisé par Deadline.
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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