scam
\skam\
The verdict
“scam” is uncommon French (frequency #53,626 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,626
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arnaque, tromperie, dans le contexte du web et des réseaux sociaux, se dit d’un faux profil/compte/message ayant pour but d’arnaquer ou de tromper les autres utilisateurices.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scam · scam · French
scam · rank #53,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,626
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauvait
Nearest frequency peer: sauvait (-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 « scam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sander
sander
46,378 corpus weight
- saur
saur
46,377 corpus weight
- sauvait
sauvait
46,376 corpus weight
- scam
scam
46,375 corpus weight
- scander
scander
46,374 corpus weight
- Schweiz
Schweiz
46,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scam is uncommon French at frequency #53,626 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arnaque, tromperie, dans le contexte du web et des réseaux sociaux, se dit d’un faux profil/compte/message ayant pour but d’arnaquer ou de tromper les autres utilisateurices.".
scam has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is scam, spelled S-C-A-M.
Definition
- 1Arnaque, tromperie, dans le contexte du web et des réseaux sociaux, se dit d’un faux profil/compte/message ayant pour but d’arnaquer ou de tromper les autres utilisateurices.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne répond pas à ce message bizarre, c’est un scam. Et surtout n’envoie pas tes données bancaires.
Cette fille sur tinder c’est un scam, ne va pas au rendez-vous.
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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