Wordsworth
The verdict
“Wordsworth” is uncommon French (frequency #79,859 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,859
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wordsworth · Wordsworth · French
Wordsworth · rank #79,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,859
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wilt
Nearest frequency peer: wilt (-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.
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Wordsworth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wordsworth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Wordsworth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Wordsworth is uncommon French at frequency #79,859 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wordsworth in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Wordsworth, spelled W-O-R-D-S-W-O-R-T-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wordsworth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
William Wordsworth.
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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