Winterthur
The verdict
“Winterthur” is uncommon French (frequency #87,260 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,260
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune du canton de Zurich en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-winterthur · Winterthur · French
Winterthur · rank #87,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,260
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wieder
Nearest frequency peer: wieder (-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 « Winterthur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Welle
Welle
12,746 corpus weight
- whig
whig
12,745 corpus weight
- whom
whom
12,744 corpus weight
- wieder
wieder
12,743 corpus weight
- Winterthur
Winterthur
12,741 corpus weight
- yona
yona
12,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Winterthur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Winterthur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Winterthur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Winterthur is uncommon French at frequency #87,260 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune du canton de Zurich en Suisse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Winterthur in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Winterthur, spelled W-I-N-T-E-R-T-H-U-R.
Definition
- 1Commune du canton de Zurich en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Winterthur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après quelques séjours temporaires à Morges, puis à Lausanne, Monsieur et Madame de Reval acceptèrent l’offre d’un ami suisse, collectionneur et mélomane, industriel et mécène célèbre, qui leur offrait une petite maison attenante à sa somptueuse demeure de Winterthur.
Synonyms
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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