Worcester
\wus.tœʁ\
The verdict
“Worcester” is uncommon French (frequency #61,229 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,229
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Worcestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-worcester · Worcester · French
Worcester · rank #61,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,229
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wladimir
Nearest frequency peer: Wladimir (-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 « Worcester »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vénérés
vénérés
38,776 corpus weight
- wedge
wedge
38,775 corpus weight
- widow
widow
38,774 corpus weight
- Wladimir
Wladimir
38,773 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
38,772 corpus weight
- yaoi
yaoi
38,769 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Worcester » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Worcester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wus.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Worcester » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Worcester is uncommon French at frequency #61,229 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \wus.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Worcester in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Worcester, spelled W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Worcestershire, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.
- 2Ville du Cap-Occidental en Afrique du Sud.
- 3Ville du Massachusetts aux États-Unis.
- 4Comté du Massachusetts aux États-Unis.
- 5Ville de l’État de New York aux États-Unis.
- 6Ville du Vermont aux États-Unis.
- 7Ville du Wisconsin aux États-Unis.
- 8Comté du Maryland aux États-Unis.
This word in other languages
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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