scarlatine
\skaʁ.la.tin\
The verdict
“scarlatine” is uncommon French (frequency #77,915 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,915
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie infectieuse dont un des principaux symptômes est une éruption cutanée d’aspect granité et rouge écarlate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scarlatine · scarlatine · French
scarlatine · rank #77,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,915
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sassenage
Nearest frequency peer: sassenage (-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 « scarlatine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sano
sano
22,089 corpus weight
- sassenage
sassenage
22,087 corpus weight
- scarlatine
scarlatine
22,086 corpus weight
- schèmes
schèmes
22,084 corpus weight
- scoubidou
scoubidou
22,083 corpus weight
- scrutent
scrutent
22,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scarlatine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scarlatine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skaʁ.la.tin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scarlatine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scarlatine is uncommon French at frequency #77,915 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skaʁ.la.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maladie infectieuse dont un des principaux symptômes est une éruption cutanée d’aspect granité et rouge écarlate.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for scarlatine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 scarlatine, spelled S-C-A-R-L-A-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie infectieuse dont un des principaux symptômes est une éruption cutanée d’aspect granité et rouge écarlate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scarlatine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une éruption caractéristique couvrit le corps du bébé. C’était une scarlatine d’espèce maligne, qui devait nécessairement amener une inflammation interne.
— Depuis sa petite scarlatine. Il ne consentait à boire ses potions que si je les lui présentais moi-même… — Ah ! M. Hyacinthe a eu la scarlatine ? s’inquiétait Mlle Caroline. — Oui… à l’âge de sept ans…
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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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