scots
\skɔts\
The verdict
“scots” is uncommon French (frequency #85,264 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,264
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue germanique, assez proche de l’anglais, parlée en Écosse et en Irlande du Nord (en Ulster).
Corpus desk
Index FR-scots · scots · French
scots · rank #85,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,264
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SCM
Nearest frequency peer: SCM (-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 « scots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- schell
schell
14,740 corpus weight
- scherzo
scherzo
14,739 corpus weight
- SCM
SCM
14,738 corpus weight
- scots
scots
14,737 corpus weight
- scénarii
scénarii
14,735 corpus weight
- secolo
secolo
14,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɔts\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scots is uncommon French at frequency #85,264 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skɔts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue germanique, assez proche de l’anglais, parlée en Écosse et en Irlande du Nord (en Ulster).".
Zero misspellings are on record for scots in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scots, spelled S-C-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Langue germanique, assez proche de l’anglais, parlée en Écosse et en Irlande du Nord (en Ulster).
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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