wit
\wɪt\
The verdict
“wit” is uncommon French (frequency #59,022 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,022
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intelligence, capacité intellectuelle, esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wit · wit · French
wit · rank #59,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,022
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wilton
Nearest frequency peer: Wilton (-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 « wit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Waremme
Waremme
40,981 corpus weight
- Wilton
Wilton
40,980 corpus weight
- wit
wit
40,979 corpus weight
- xc
xc
40,978 corpus weight
- Zalando
Zalando
40,976 corpus weight
- Zamora
Zamora
40,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɪt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wit is uncommon French at frequency #59,022 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
wit has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is wit, spelled W-I-T.
Definition
- 1Intelligence, capacité intellectuelle, esprit.
- 2Humour rapide, esprit.
- 3Pince-sans-rire, humoriste, homme d’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn’t even have the wit to take it!
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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