wives
\waɪvz\
The verdict
“wives” is uncommon French (frequency #89,311 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,311
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de wife.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wives · wives · French
wives · rank #89,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,311
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wisdom
Nearest frequency peer: wisdom (-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 « wives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- windy
windy
10,693 corpus weight
- winning
winning
10,692 corpus weight
- wisdom
wisdom
10,691 corpus weight
- wives
wives
10,690 corpus weight
- Wolverhampt…
Wolverhampton
10,689 corpus weight
- workshops
workshops
10,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \waɪvz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wives is uncommon French at frequency #89,311 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \waɪvz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de wife.".
wives doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is wives, spelled W-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de wife.
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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