Schweizer
\ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ\
The verdict
“Schweizer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,365 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,365
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Suisse, suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schweizer · Schweizer · French
Schweizer · rank #83,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,365
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schnell
Nearest frequency peer: schnell (-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 « Schweizer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sauveuse
sauveuse
16,639 corpus weight
- sayonara
sayonara
16,638 corpus weight
- schnell
schnell
16,637 corpus weight
- Schweizer
Schweizer
16,636 corpus weight
- Scotto
Scotto
16,635 corpus weight
- screw
screw
16,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Schweizer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schweizer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Schweizer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Schweizer is uncommon French at frequency #83,365 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Suisse, suisse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schweizer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Schweizer, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-Z-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Suisse, suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schweizer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Schweizer Wahlvolk hat die Erhöhung der Mehrwertsteuer gebilligt.
Ken bricht jeden Tag gegen halb neun auf, fährt über die Schweizer Grenze, kommt gegen neunzehn Uhr von der Arbeit zurück. An den Wochenenden gesellt sich manchmal eine Frau zu ihm, eine Französischlehrerin aus dem zehn Kilometer entfernten Bonneville.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).