scones
\skɔn\
The verdict
“scones” is uncommon French (frequency #75,206 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,206
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de scone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scones · scones · French
scones · rank #75,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,206
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scientisme
Nearest frequency peer: scientisme (-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 « scones »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Schaefer
Schaefer
24,798 corpus weight
- schématiser
schématiser
24,797 corpus weight
- scientisme
scientisme
24,796 corpus weight
- scones
scones
24,795 corpus weight
- scrooge
scrooge
24,794 corpus weight
- scénarisati…
scénarisation
24,792 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scones » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scones » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scones is uncommon French at frequency #75,206 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de scone.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scones, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 scones, spelled S-C-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de scone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scones 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.
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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