wonderful
The verdict
“wonderful” is uncommon French (frequency #53,069 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,069
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Merveilleux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wonderful · wonderful · French
wonderful · rank #53,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,069
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH witness
Nearest frequency peer: witness (-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 « wonderful »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- véron
véron
46,936 corpus weight
- waldo
waldo
46,935 corpus weight
- welsh
welsh
46,934 corpus weight
- witness
witness
46,933 corpus weight
- wonderful
wonderful
46,932 corpus weight
- XVIIIème
XVIIIème
46,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wonderful » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wonderful |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wonderful » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wonderful is uncommon French at frequency #53,069 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Merveilleux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for wonderful in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is wonderful, spelled W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Merveilleux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wonderful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vois passer dehors une wonderful souris blonde, bandant ! que je me dis. Je douille et bolide dans la rue.
Cependant, ses pensées restaient à cet instant tournées vers Lillian, anciennement Wunderlich, une « fille si wonderful », si merveilleuse. Après le décès de son épouse, il s'installa dans l'Oregon, […].
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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