runway
\ˈɹʌn.ˌweɪ\
The verdict
“runway” is uncommon French (frequency #96,337 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,337
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passerelle, piste (d’atterrissage).
Corpus desk
Index FR-runway · runway · French
runway · rank #96,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,337
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rroms
Nearest frequency peer: Rroms (-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 « runway »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rouleurs
rouleurs
3,667 corpus weight
- royautés
royautés
3,666 corpus weight
- Rroms
Rroms
3,665 corpus weight
- runway
runway
3,664 corpus weight
- réactualisé
réactualisé
3,663 corpus weight
- réalignement
réalignement
3,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « runway » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | runway |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹʌn.ˌweɪ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « runway » en français
Rare enough to double-check
runway is uncommon French at frequency #96,337 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹʌn.ˌweɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for runway in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is runway, spelled R-U-N-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Passerelle, piste (d’atterrissage).
- 2Piste (de défilé de mode).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how runway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The plane took off from the runway.
The models walked gracefully down the runway.
Synonyms
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).