Schleswig
The verdict
“Schleswig” is uncommon French (frequency #67,099 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,099
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et commune d’Allemagne, située dans le Schleswig-Holstein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schleswig · Schleswig · French
Schleswig · rank #67,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,099
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sapporo
Nearest frequency peer: Sapporo (-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 « Schleswig »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Salmane
Salmane
32,905 corpus weight
- salvo
salvo
32,904 corpus weight
- Sapporo
Sapporo
32,903 corpus weight
- Schleswig
Schleswig
32,902 corpus weight
- scotchée
scotchée
32,900 corpus weight
- SCR
SCR
32,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Schleswig » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schleswig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Schleswig » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Schleswig is uncommon French at frequency #67,099 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Schleswig in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Schleswig, spelled S-C-H-L-E-S-W-I-G.
Definition
- 1Ville et commune d’Allemagne, située dans le Schleswig-Holstein.
- 2Ancien duché qui était situé à la limite du Danemark et de l’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schleswig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous descendîmes à l’auberge de l’endroit, tenue par Herr Jensen, un brave Danois du Schleswig qui s’est exilé en Islande plutôt que de devenir Prussien ; il a épousé une Islandaise qui lui a donné de fort beaux enfants.
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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