Wissam
The verdict
“Wissam” is uncommon French (frequency #78,058 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,058
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wissam · Wissam · French
Wissam · rank #78,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,058
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wotan
Nearest frequency peer: Wotan (+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 « Wissam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wednesday
Wednesday
21,947 corpus weight
- Wissam
Wissam
21,943 corpus weight
- Wotan
Wotan
21,942 corpus weight
- wraith
wraith
21,941 corpus weight
- xhosa
xhosa
21,939 corpus weight
- yana
yana
21,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wissam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wissam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wissam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wissam is uncommon French at frequency #78,058 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wissam, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Wissam, spelled W-I-S-S-A-M.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wissam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revanche, les partenaires de Wissam Ben Yedder impressionnent offensivement, avec au moins un but inscrit sur les 15 dernières rencontres et quatre points marqués en deux journées.
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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