scabreux
\ska.bʁø\
The verdict
“scabreux” is uncommon French (frequency #71,053 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est rude, raboteux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scabreux · scabreux · French
scabreux · rank #71,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,053
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauteurs
Nearest frequency peer: sauteurs (-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 « scabreux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sarthois
sarthois
28,951 corpus weight
- sauteurs
sauteurs
28,949 corpus weight
- scabreux
scabreux
28,948 corpus weight
- scientists
scientists
28,947 corpus weight
- Sempé
Sempé
28,946 corpus weight
- senseurs
senseurs
28,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scabreux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scabreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ska.bʁø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scabreux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scabreux is uncommon French at frequency #71,053 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ska.bʁø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
scabreux doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is scabreux, spelled S-C-A-B-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est rude, raboteux.
- 2Qui est raboteux, couvert de petites saillies rigides (scabers) qui donnent une texture rugueuse.
- 3Qui est dangereux, périlleux, difficile.
- 4Qui est malsain, qui manque de décence.
- 5Qualifie une histoire qu’il est difficile de raconter décemment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scabreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un chemin scabreux.
Une montagne qui est scabreuse à monter et à descendre.
Synonyms
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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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