woo
[wuː]
The verdict
“woo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,815) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,815
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courtiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-woo · woo · French
woo · rank #24,815 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,815
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vulgarité
Nearest frequency peer: vulgarité (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « woo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- visuelles
visuelles
75,190 corpus weight
- Viviane
Viviane
75,189 corpus weight
- voyance
voyance
75,188 corpus weight
- vulgarité
vulgarité
75,187 corpus weight
- woo
woo
75,186 corpus weight
- ye
ye
75,183 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « woo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | woo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [wuː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « woo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for woo is neighbouring look-alikes ("wu", "wp", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [wuː]. Frequency #24,815 among 549 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Courtiser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for woo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wu", "wp", "wow", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is woo, spelled W-O-O.
Definition
- 1Courtiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how woo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Something in the way she moves Attracts me like no other lover Something in the way she woos me I don't want to leave her now You know I believe and how.
State attempts to woo Yahoo. : L’État (de New York) tente de courtiser Yahoo.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).