Schrödinger
\ʃʁø.diŋ.ɡɛʁ\
The verdict
“Schrödinger” is uncommon French (frequency #54,251 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,251
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu pour Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), physicien autrichien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schrodinger · Schrödinger · French
Schrödinger · rank #54,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,251
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scandalise
Nearest frequency peer: scandalise (-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 « Schrödinger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saucissons
saucissons
45,753 corpus weight
- saupoudré
saupoudré
45,752 corpus weight
- scandalise
scandalise
45,751 corpus weight
- Schrödinger
Schrödinger
45,750 corpus weight
- scrubs
scrubs
45,749 corpus weight
- secourue
secourue
45,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Schrödinger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schrödinger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃʁø.diŋ.ɡɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Schrödinger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Schrödinger is uncommon French at frequency #54,251 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃʁø.diŋ.ɡɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu pour Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), physicien autrichien.".
Schrödinger has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Schrödinger, spelled S-C-H-R-Ö-D-I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu pour Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), physicien autrichien.
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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