witloof
\wi.tlof\
The verdict
“witloof” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Légume de couleur blanche obtenu d’une variété de chicorée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-witloof · witloof · French
witloof · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | witloof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wi.tlof\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
witloof is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \wi.tlof\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Légume de couleur blanche obtenu d’une variété de chicorée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for witloof, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is witloof, spelled W-I-T-L-O-O-F.
Definition
- 1Légume de couleur blanche obtenu d’une variété de chicorée.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.