wins
\ˈwɪnz\
The verdict
“wins” is uncommon French (frequency #67,211 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,211
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent simple de win.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wins · wins · French
wins · rank #67,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,211
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Webedia
Nearest frequency peer: Webedia (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wins”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- voterons
voterons
32,796 corpus weight
- véhément
véhément
32,795 corpus weight
- vérins
vérins
32,794 corpus weight
- Webedia
Webedia
32,791 corpus weight
- wins
wins
32,790 corpus weight
- yoni
yoni
32,788 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wins” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈwɪnz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “wins” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
wins is uncommon French at frequency #67,211 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈwɪnz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent simple de win.".
wins doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is wins, spelled W-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent simple de win.
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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