workman
\ˈwɝk.mən\
The verdict
“workman” is uncommon French (frequency #99,770 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,770
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-workman · workman · French
workman · rank #99,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH XIIIème
Nearest frequency peer: XIIIème (+2 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 « workman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Whiteley
Whiteley
236 corpus weight
- winkle
winkle
235 corpus weight
- Wissenschaf…
Wissenschaften
234 corpus weight
- workman
workman
231 corpus weight
- XIIIème
XIIIème
229 corpus weight
- Yoshino
Yoshino
226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « workman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | workman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɝk.mən\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « workman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
workman is uncommon French at frequency #99,770 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɝk.mən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ouvrier.".
workman has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is workman, spelled W-O-R-K-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier.
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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