witte
\ˈʋɪ.tə\
The verdict
“witte” is uncommon French (frequency #57,692 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,692
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme déclinée positive de wit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-witte · witte · French
witte · rank #57,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,692
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wisigoths
Nearest frequency peer: wisigoths (-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 « witte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- waka
waka
42,314 corpus weight
- Whelan
Whelan
42,312 corpus weight
- width
width
42,311 corpus weight
- wisigoths
wisigoths
42,310 corpus weight
- witte
witte
42,309 corpus weight
- Younès
Younès
42,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « witte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | witte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈʋɪ.tə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « witte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
witte is uncommon French at frequency #57,692 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈʋɪ.tə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme déclinée positive de wit.".
witte has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is witte, spelled W-I-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Forme déclinée positive de wit.
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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