schon
\ʃoːn\
The verdict
“schon” is uncommon French (frequency #96,365 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,365
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déjà.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schon · schon · French
schon · rank #96,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,365
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schneck
Nearest frequency peer: schneck (-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 « schon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scared
scared
3,639 corpus weight
- schneck
schneck
3,637 corpus weight
- schon
schon
3,636 corpus weight
- sclérosée
sclérosée
3,634 corpus weight
- scolairement
scolairement
3,633 corpus weight
- Scorpius
Scorpius
3,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « schon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʃoːn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « schon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
schon is uncommon French at frequency #96,365 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ʃoːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is schon, spelled S-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Déjà.
- 2Depuis (un temps).
- 3Dès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Habt ihr schon gegessen?
Dieser Gerichtsfall ist, obgleich schon ein paar Jahre alt, nicht nur deshalb so unvergesslich, weil er um eine der fabelhaften Formulierungen kreist, mit denen die deutsche Jurisprudenz die Menschheit beschenkt hat: "nutzlos aufgewendete Urlaubszeit."
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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