scélérats
\se.le.ʁa\
The verdict
“scélérats” is uncommon French (frequency #61,135 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,135
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de scélérat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scelerats · scélérats · French
scélérats · rank #61,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,135
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scrutant
Nearest frequency peer: scrutant (-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 « scélérats »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- screenshots
screenshots
38,869 corpus weight
- scrum
scrum
38,868 corpus weight
- scrutant
scrutant
38,867 corpus weight
- scélérats
scélérats
38,866 corpus weight
- Seamus
Seamus
38,865 corpus weight
- Seigner
Seigner
38,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scélérats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scélérats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.le.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scélérats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scélérats is uncommon French at frequency #61,135 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.le.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de scélérat.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scélérats, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is scélérats, spelled S-C-É-L-É-R-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de scélérat.
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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