women

/\ˈwɪm.ɪn\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,371

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

women is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de woman. Pronounced \ˈwɪm.ɪn\. Often confused with won and wren.

Key facts for women
PropertyValue
Headwordwomen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈwɪm.ɪn\
Letters5
Frequency rank#18,371
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of women in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for women is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈwɪm.ɪn\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,371 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de woman.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for women, with forms such as "owmen", "wmoen", and "woemn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "won", "wren", "wen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is women, spelled W-O-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de woman.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: owmen,wmoen,woemn,womenn,wommen,womne,wwomen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for women

Misspelling Variants of "women"

owmen5wmoen5woemn5womenn6wommen6womne5wwomen6
Misspelling Variants of "women"

Frequency rank: #18,371 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "women"?
"women" is spelled W-O-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈwɪm.ɪn\.
What does "women" mean?
As a noun, "women" means: Pluriel de woman.
What words are commonly confused with "women"?
"women" is commonly confused with "won", "wren", "wen". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "women"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "women" is \ˈwɪm.ɪn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "women" come from?
"women" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.