school

/\ˈskul\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,159

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

school is aFrenchnoun. It means: École, endroit où on enseigne aux plus jeunes. Pronounced \ˈskul\. It ranks #8,159 in French word frequency. Often confused with scoop and shoot.

Key facts for school
PropertyValue
Headwordschool
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈskul\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,159
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of school in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for school is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈskul\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,159 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for school, with forms such as "cshool", "scchool", and "schhool". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "scoop", "shoot", "schools", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is school, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    École, endroit où on enseigne aux plus jeunes.
  2. 2
    Université.
  3. 3
    Faculté, branche d’une université.
  4. 4
    École composé des adhérents à une certaine doctrine.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cshool,scchool,schhool,schol,scholo,schooll,scohol,shcool,sschool

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for school

Misspelling Variants of "school"

cshool6scchool7schhool7schol5scholo6schooll7scohol6shcool6
Misspelling Variants of "school"

Frequency rank: #8,159 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "school"?
"school" is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈskul\.
What does "school" mean?
As a noun, "school" means: École, endroit où on enseigne aux plus jeunes.
What words are commonly confused with "school"?
"school" is commonly confused with "scoop", "shoot", "schools". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "school"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "school" is \ˈskul\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "school" come from?
"school" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.