WWW
\du.blə.ve du.blə.ve du.blə.ve\
The verdict
“WWW” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,811) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,811
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Web, toile d’araignée mondiale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-www · WWW · French
WWW · rank #34,811 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,811
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wyoming
Nearest frequency peer: Wyoming (+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 « WWW »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vérificateur
vérificateur
65,194 corpus weight
- wahou
wahou
65,193 corpus weight
- weird
weird
65,192 corpus weight
- WWW
WWW
65,190 corpus weight
- Wyoming
Wyoming
65,189 corpus weight
- écrou
écrou
65,187 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « WWW » 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 | WWW |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.blə.ve du.blə.ve du.blə.ve\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « WWW »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for WWW is neighbouring look-alikes ("W", "we", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \du.blə.ve du.blə.ve du.blə.ve\. Frequency #34,811 among 549 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Web, toile d’araignée mondiale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for WWW, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "W", "we", "wc", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 WWW, spelled W-W-W.
Definition
- 1Web, toile d’araignée mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how WWW appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autoritativité peut donc être définie comme une attitude consistant à produire et à rendre public des textes, à s’auto-éditer ou à publier sur le WWW, sans passer par l’assentiment d’institutions de référence référées à l’ordre imprimé.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).