worm
\wɜːm\
The verdict
“worm” is uncommon French (frequency #64,177 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,177
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-worm · worm · French
worm · rank #64,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,177
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wsh
Nearest frequency peer: wsh (+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 « worm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- walla
walla
35,830 corpus weight
- warden
warden
35,828 corpus weight
- worm
worm
35,824 corpus weight
- wsh
wsh
35,823 corpus weight
- Yee
Yee
35,820 corpus weight
- yelp
yelp
35,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « worm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɜːm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « worm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
worm is uncommon French at frequency #64,177 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɜːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
worm has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is worm, spelled W-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1Ver.
- 2Vermine, scarabée.
- 3Vis sans fin, engrenage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how worm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm meshes with a worm gear.
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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