wipe
\wajp\
The verdict
“wipe” is uncommon French (frequency #97,559 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,559
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de wiper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wipe · wipe · French
wipe · rank #97,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,559
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,995
- PHOTO-FINISH wildcat
Nearest frequency peer: wildcat (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wipe”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- WEIs
WEIs
2,447 corpus weight
- wey
wey
2,445 corpus weight
- wildcat
wildcat
2,444 corpus weight
- wipe
wipe
2,442 corpus weight
- wounded
wounded
2,439 corpus weight
- wraps
wraps
2,438 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wipe” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wipe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \wajp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wipe” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wipe is uncommon French at frequency #97,559 among 27,995 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \wajp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for wipe in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is wipe, spelled W-I-P-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de wiper.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de wiper.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de wiper.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de wiper.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de wiper.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.