witness
\ˈwɪt.nəs\
The verdict
“witness” is uncommon French (frequency #53,068 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,068
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Témoin (personne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-witness · witness · French
witness · rank #53,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,068
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH welsh
Nearest frequency peer: welsh (-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 « witness »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- véron
véron
46,936 corpus weight
- waldo
waldo
46,935 corpus weight
- welsh
welsh
46,934 corpus weight
- witness
witness
46,933 corpus weight
- wonderful
wonderful
46,932 corpus weight
- XVIIIème
XVIIIème
46,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « witness » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | witness |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɪt.nəs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « witness » en français
Rare enough to double-check
witness is uncommon French at frequency #53,068 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɪt.nəs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for witness in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is witness, spelled W-I-T-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Témoin (personne).
- 2Témoignage
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how witness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As a witness to the event, I can tell you that he really said that.
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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