Wissembourg
\vi.sɑ̃.buʁ\
The verdict
“Wissembourg” is uncommon French (frequency #60,480 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,480
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wissembourg · Wissembourg · French
Wissembourg · rank #60,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,480
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH woke
Nearest frequency peer: woke (+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 « Wissembourg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- waou
waou
39,526 corpus weight
- whistle
whistle
39,524 corpus weight
- wicked
wicked
39,523 corpus weight
- Wissembourg
Wissembourg
39,521 corpus weight
- woke
woke
39,520 corpus weight
- xiang
xiang
39,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wissembourg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wissembourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vi.sɑ̃.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #60,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wissembourg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wissembourg is uncommon French at frequency #60,480 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vi.sɑ̃.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wissembourg, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Wissembourg, spelled W-I-S-S-E-M-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wissembourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les troupe badoises commencent ainsi à quitter nos environs pour entrer en cantonnement dans les arrondissements de Saverne et de Wissembourg. Le quartier-général badois a été transféré avant-hier à Brumath.
En 1897, à l’occasion de ses vingt-cinq ans d’existence, il a tracé « la traversée du massif des Vosges », un itinéraire de 430 km, de Wissembourg à Fesches-le-Châtel, qui sera labellisé GR^©5 dès 1947.
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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