old school
\old skul\
The verdict
“old school” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pense à l’ancienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-old-school · old school · French
old school · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | old school |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \old skul\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
old school is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \old skul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui pense à l’ancienne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for old school, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is old school, spelled O-L-D- -S-C-H-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1Qui pense à l’ancienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how old school appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis un peu old school. Une députée, ça parle et ça écrit, résume Constance Le Grip.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.