wolof
\wɔ.lɔf\
The verdict
“wolof” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,077
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise parlée au Sénégal, en Gambie et en Mauritanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wolof · wolof · French
wolof · rank #41,077 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,077
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wise
Nearest frequency peer: wise (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « wolof »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Wawrinka
Wawrinka
58,927 corpus weight
- wise
wise
58,925 corpus weight
- wolof
wolof
58,924 corpus weight
- xo
xo
58,923 corpus weight
- Yasmine
Yasmine
58,922 corpus weight
- youhou
youhou
58,921 corpus weight
What this shows « wolof » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wolof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɔ.lɔf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « wolof »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around wolof (IPA \wɔ.lɔf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,077 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise parlée au Sénégal, en Gambie et en Mauritanie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for wolof, with forms such as "owlof", "wloof", and "wolfo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "woo", "wood", "Wolf", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 wolof, spelled W-O-L-O-F.
Definition
- 1Langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise parlée au Sénégal, en Gambie et en Mauritanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wolof appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le système numéral le plus progressif, et peut-être le plus fréquent dans les langues naturelles connues, est le système décimal qui a pour base le nombre dix, mais il existe aussi des systèmes autres que décimal. Ce sont : […] - le système quinaire qui a pour base le nombre cinq, dans de nombreuses langues d’Afrique, d’Amérique, d’Australie, d’Océanie et…
On entend parler l’arabe, le serbe, le wolof, le chinois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owlof
- wloof
- wolfo
- wollof
- woloff
- woolf
- wwolof
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wolof - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).