wolfram
\vɔl.fʁam\
The verdict
“wolfram” is uncommon French (frequency #55,685 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,685
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tungstène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wolfram · wolfram · French
wolfram · rank #55,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,685
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wou
Nearest frequency peer: wou (+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 « wolfram »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wealth
wealth
44,319 corpus weight
- wolfram
wolfram
44,316 corpus weight
- wou
wou
44,315 corpus weight
- xin
xin
44,314 corpus weight
- zn
zn
44,313 corpus weight
- zéphyr
zéphyr
44,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wolfram » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wolfram |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔl.fʁam\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wolfram » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wolfram is uncommon French at frequency #55,685 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔl.fʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
wolfram has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is wolfram, spelled W-O-L-F-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1Tungstène.
- 2Wolframite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wolfram appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À trois kilomètres de chez nous il y avait une mine de wolfram où travaillaient surtout des Nord-Africains logés dans des baraquements.
On peut en dire autant d’une eſpéce de ſubſtance ferrugineuſe que les Allemands nomment Wolfram ; elle eſt ſtriée & d’une vraie couleur de fer, on la trouve à Altemberg en Miſnie , où on lui donne très-improprement le nom d’antimoine.
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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