scélérate
\se.le.ʁat\
The verdict
“scélérate” is uncommon French (frequency #79,731 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui manifeste des intentions ou des sentiments criminels et perfides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scelerate · scélérate · French
scélérate · rank #79,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,731
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secondary
Nearest frequency peer: secondary (+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 « scélérate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- schola
schola
20,273 corpus weight
- scion
scion
20,272 corpus weight
- scélérate
scélérate
20,270 corpus weight
- secondary
secondary
20,269 corpus weight
- Segway
Segway
20,268 corpus weight
- seiches
seiches
20,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scélérate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scélérate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.le.ʁat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scélérate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scélérate is uncommon French at frequency #79,731 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.le.ʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui manifeste des intentions ou des sentiments criminels et perfides.".
scélérate has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 scélérate, spelled S-C-É-L-É-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui manifeste des intentions ou des sentiments criminels et perfides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scélérate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle s'attacha à la magie, et, quand elle sut assez de cet art diabolique pour exécuter l'horrible dessein qu'elle méditait, la scélérate mena mon fils dans un lieu écarté.
— Voyons, pensa-t-il en se retirant et en répondant à peine aux reproches de Ketty, voyons, ne soyons pas un sot ; décidément cette femme est une grande scélérate.
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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