scat
\skat\
The verdict
“scat” is uncommon French (frequency #71,903 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,903
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme d’improvisation vocale où des onomatopées sont utilisées plutôt que des paroles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scat · scat · French
scat · rank #71,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,903
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scary
Nearest frequency peer: scary (-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 « scat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saunas
saunas
28,101 corpus weight
- savarin
savarin
28,100 corpus weight
- scary
scary
28,099 corpus weight
- scat
scat
28,098 corpus weight
- scholastique
scholastique
28,097 corpus weight
- scissions
scissions
28,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skat\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scat is uncommon French at frequency #71,903 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme d’improvisation vocale où des onomatopées sont utilisées plutôt que des paroles.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scat, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 scat, spelled S-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Forme d’improvisation vocale où des onomatopées sont utilisées plutôt que des paroles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au micro, Spalding révèle des couleurs qu’on avait mal perçues en 2009: une grande élasticité dans la voix, qui permet de hautes envolées et des scats mélodiques.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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