worst
\ˈwɝst\
The verdict
“worst” is uncommon French (frequency #51,822 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,822
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Superlatif de bad dans le sens de « mauvais ». Le pire, le plus mauvais. Note : Le superlatif de bad dans le sens de « formidable » est baddest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-worst · worst · French
worst · rank #51,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,822
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wheel
Nearest frequency peer: wheel (-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 « worst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- waterproof
waterproof
48,183 corpus weight
- Wentworth
Wentworth
48,181 corpus weight
- wheel
wheel
48,180 corpus weight
- worst
worst
48,179 corpus weight
- Xanax
Xanax
48,177 corpus weight
- xing
xing
48,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « worst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈwɝst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « worst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
worst is uncommon French at frequency #51,822 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈwɝst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
worst doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 worst, spelled W-O-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1Superlatif de bad dans le sens de « mauvais ». Le pire, le plus mauvais. Note : Le superlatif de bad dans le sens de « formidable » est baddest.
- 2Superlatif de ill. Le plus malade.
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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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