Wirth
\vɪʁt\
The verdict
“Wirth” is uncommon French (frequency #66,428 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,428
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wirth · Wirth · French
Wirth · rank #66,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,428
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wight
Nearest frequency peer: wight (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Wirth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- webcams
webcams
33,576 corpus weight
- whiplash
whiplash
33,575 corpus weight
- wight
wight
33,574 corpus weight
- Wirth
Wirth
33,573 corpus weight
- Worley
Worley
33,571 corpus weight
- Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro
33,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wirth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wirth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vɪʁt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wirth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wirth is uncommon French at frequency #66,428 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vɪʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Wirth doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists 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 Wirth, spelled W-I-R-T-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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