scheme
\skiːm\
The verdict
“scheme” is uncommon French (frequency #64,776 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,776
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plan, projet, schéma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scheme · scheme · French
scheme · rank #64,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,776
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SCC
Nearest frequency peer: SCC (-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 « scheme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sayed
Sayed
35,229 corpus weight
- scapin
scapin
35,227 corpus weight
- SCC
SCC
35,226 corpus weight
- scheme
scheme
35,225 corpus weight
- scrolls
scrolls
35,224 corpus weight
- seeds
seeds
35,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scheme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scheme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skiːm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scheme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scheme is uncommon French at frequency #64,776 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skiːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scheme, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is scheme, spelled S-C-H-E-M-E.
Definition
- 1Plan, projet, schéma.
- 2Manigance.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).