milkshake
\milk.ʃɛk\
The verdict
“milkshake” is uncommon French (frequency #62,447 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,447
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lait frappé, boisson frappée à base de lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milkshake · milkshake · French
milkshake · rank #62,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,447
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mikko
Nearest frequency peer: Mikko (-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 « milkshake »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mello
mello
37,556 corpus weight
- Mikko
Mikko
37,555 corpus weight
- milkshake
milkshake
37,554 corpus weight
- mirai
mirai
37,553 corpus weight
- misa
misa
37,552 corpus weight
- missionné
missionné
37,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « milkshake » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milkshake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \milk.ʃɛk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « milkshake » en français
Rare enough to double-check
milkshake is uncommon French at frequency #62,447 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \milk.ʃɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lait frappé, boisson frappée à base de lait.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for milkshake, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is milkshake, spelled M-I-L-K-S-H-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Lait frappé, boisson frappée à base de lait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how milkshake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un milk-shake au chocolat.
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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