scared
\skeəd\
The verdict
“scared” is uncommon French (frequency #96,362 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,362
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe to scare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scared · scared · French
scared · rank #96,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,362
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schneck
Nearest frequency peer: schneck (+2 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 « scared »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saucer
saucer
3,644 corpus weight
- saurin
saurin
3,643 corpus weight
- Sauvageau
Sauvageau
3,642 corpus weight
- scared
scared
3,639 corpus weight
- schneck
schneck
3,637 corpus weight
- schon
schon
3,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scared » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scared |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skeəd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scared » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scared is uncommon French at frequency #96,362 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \skeəd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scared, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is scared, spelled S-C-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit du verbe to scare.
- 2Participe passé du verbe to scare.
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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