WTA
The verdict
“WTA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,912) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,912
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Association regroupant les joueuses de tennis de haut niveau, et organisant des tournois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wta · WTA · French
WTA · rank #18,912 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,912
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH which
Nearest frequency peer: which (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « WTA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- were
were
81,092 corpus weight
- Wesley
Wesley
81,091 corpus weight
- which
which
81,090 corpus weight
- WTA
WTA
81,089 corpus weight
- Yankees
Yankees
81,088 corpus weight
- éclairs
éclairs
81,087 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « WTA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | WTA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « WTA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for WTA is neighbouring look-alikes ("wu", "WTF", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #18,912 among 549 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Association regroupant les joueuses de tennis de haut niveau, et organisant des tournois.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for WTA, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wu", "WTF", "WWE", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is WTA, spelled W-T-A.
Definition
- 1Association regroupant les joueuses de tennis de haut niveau, et organisant des tournois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how WTA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muriel Merolle a vécu, comme peu de passionnés, le sacre inédit de Caroline Garcia, dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, au Masters WTA, contre la Biélorusse Aryna Sabalenka (7-6, 6-4).
En 2023, le circuit international Féminin de Tennis WTA fait étape à Lyon.
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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