scone
\skon\
The verdict
“scone” is uncommon French (frequency #98,474 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,474
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit pain britannique généralement rond légèrement salé ou sucré pouvant contenir des raisins, du fromage et consommé avec le thé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scone · scone · French
scone · rank #98,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,474
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scolastiques
Nearest frequency peer: scolastiques (-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 « scone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scandaient
scandaient
1,532 corpus weight
- scientologue
scientologue
1,529 corpus weight
- scolastiques
scolastiques
1,528 corpus weight
- scone
scone
1,527 corpus weight
- scénographi…
scénographique
1,526 corpus weight
- seeking
seeking
1,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skon\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scone is uncommon French at frequency #98,474 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skon\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit pain britannique généralement rond légèrement salé ou sucré pouvant contenir des raisins, du fromage et consommé avec le thé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scone, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is scone, spelled S-C-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Petit pain britannique généralement rond légèrement salé ou sucré pouvant contenir des raisins, du fromage et consommé avec le thé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arabella est entrée dans ma chambre, avec un plateau. Du Lapsang Souchong fumant et des scones.
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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