scales
\skal\
The verdict
“scales” is uncommon French (frequency #99,627 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,627
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de scaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scales · scales · French
scales · rank #99,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,627
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schatz
Nearest frequency peer: Schatz (+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 « scales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- satsuma
satsuma
379 corpus weight
- savetier
savetier
377 corpus weight
- scales
scales
374 corpus weight
- Schatz
Schatz
373 corpus weight
- Schnitzler
Schnitzler
372 corpus weight
- secundus
secundus
370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scales is uncommon French at frequency #99,627 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \skal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for scales in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is scales, spelled S-C-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de scaler.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de scaler.
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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