WNBA
The verdict
“WNBA” is uncommon French (frequency #85,389 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,389
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligue américaine professionnelle de basket-ball féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wnba · WNBA · French
WNBA · rank #85,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,389
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wilmotte
Nearest frequency peer: Wilmotte (-2 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 « WNBA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wevelgem
Wevelgem
14,618 corpus weight
- WF
WF
14,617 corpus weight
- Wilmotte
Wilmotte
14,614 corpus weight
- WNBA
WNBA
14,612 corpus weight
- Zao
Zao
14,608 corpus weight
- zibeline
zibeline
14,606 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « WNBA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | WNBA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « WNBA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
WNBA is uncommon French at frequency #85,389 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ligue américaine professionnelle de basket-ball féminin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for WNBA in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is WNBA, spelled W-N-B-A.
Definition
- 1Ligue américaine professionnelle de basket-ball féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how WNBA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai pu la voir dans un contexte WNBA, en match, aux entraînements, et j’ai été définitivement convaincu que c’était la joueuse qu’il nous fallait.
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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