wird
\ˈwɪrt\
The verdict
“wird” is uncommon French (frequency #65,623 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,623
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de werden de sens devenir ou utilisé pour former le futur et la voix passive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wird · wird · French
wird · rank #65,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,623
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,995
- PHOTO-FINISH Wikidata
Nearest frequency peer: Wikidata (-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 “wird”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wauters
Wauters
34,384 corpus weight
- whiskies
whiskies
34,381 corpus weight
- Whyte
Whyte
34,380 corpus weight
- Wikidata
Wikidata
34,379 corpus weight
- wird
wird
34,378 corpus weight
- Yazid
Yazid
34,374 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wird” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wird |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈwɪrt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wird” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wird is uncommon French at frequency #65,623 among 27,995 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈwɪrt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de werden de sens devenir ou utilisé pour former le futur et la voix passive.".
No misspelling variants are generated for wird in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 wird, spelled W-I-R-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de werden de sens devenir ou utilisé pour former le futur et la voix passive.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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.