Wissous
\vi.su\
The verdict
“Wissous” is uncommon French (frequency #80,785 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,785
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Essonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wissous · Wissous · French
Wissous · rank #80,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,785
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wroclaw
Nearest frequency peer: Wroclaw (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Wissous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voûtés
voûtés
19,225 corpus weight
- vénérait
vénérait
19,224 corpus weight
- weapon
weapon
19,223 corpus weight
- wep
wep
19,221 corpus weight
- Wissous
Wissous
19,216 corpus weight
- Wroclaw
Wroclaw
19,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wissous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wissous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vi.su\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wissous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wissous is uncommon French at frequency #80,785 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vi.su\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Essonne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Wissous in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Wissous, spelled W-I-S-S-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Essonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wissous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré deux gares : l'une sur l’Arpajonnais, fermée en 1936, l'autre sur la Grande Ceinture mais sans passage de trains de voyageurs, Wissous n'a jamais eu d'industrie à part une cidrerie près de la gare qui ferma en 1948 […].
Cinq minutes plus tard, je sais tout des derniers développements de l'enquête. En gros,ça se limite à enquiquiner les habitants de Wissous et de quelques communes adjacentes à cause d'un malheureux appel de portatif passé dans le coin.
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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