woof
\wʊf\
The verdict
“woof” is uncommon French (frequency #95,468 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,468
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouaf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-woof · woof · French
woof · rank #95,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,468
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH woodcock
Nearest frequency peer: woodcock (-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 « woof »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Waterford
Waterford
4,538 corpus weight
- Waziristan
Waziristan
4,536 corpus weight
- woodcock
woodcock
4,534 corpus weight
- woof
woof
4,533 corpus weight
- yahourt
yahourt
4,530 corpus weight
- Yazidis
Yazidis
4,529 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « woof » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | woof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \wʊf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « woof » en français
Rare enough to double-check
woof is uncommon French at frequency #95,468 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \wʊf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for woof in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is woof, spelled W-O-O-F.
Definition
- 1Ouaf.
- 2Expression d’une forte attirance physique envers quelqu’un.
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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