Schaffhouse
\ʃa.fuz\
The verdict
“Schaffhouse” is uncommon French (frequency #86,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,161
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schaffhouse · Schaffhouse · French
Schaffhouse · rank #86,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,161
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scannés
Nearest frequency peer: scannés (-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 « Schaffhouse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- savourait
savourait
13,843 corpus weight
- scalaires
scalaires
13,842 corpus weight
- scannés
scannés
13,841 corpus weight
- Schaffhouse
Schaffhouse
13,840 corpus weight
- Scholz
Scholz
13,838 corpus weight
- scolari
scolari
13,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Schaffhouse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schaffhouse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.fuz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Schaffhouse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Schaffhouse is uncommon French at frequency #86,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.fuz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Schaffhouse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Schaffhouse, spelled S-C-H-A-F-F-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ville de Suisse.
- 2Canton autour de cette ville.
Synonyms
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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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