screening
\skʁi.niŋ\
The verdict
“screening” is uncommon French (frequency #88,081 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,081
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tri, sélection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-screening · screening · French
screening · rank #88,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,081
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scripteur
Nearest frequency peer: scripteur (+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 « screening »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- savonner
savonner
11,925 corpus weight
- saynète
saynète
11,924 corpus weight
- scandés
scandés
11,923 corpus weight
- screening
screening
11,920 corpus weight
- scripteur
scripteur
11,919 corpus weight
- sede
sede
11,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « screening » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | screening |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁi.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « screening » en français
Rare enough to double-check
screening is uncommon French at frequency #88,081 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skʁi.niŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for screening, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 screening, spelled S-C-R-E-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Tri, sélection.
- 2test
- 3Piratage en salle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how screening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gouvernement entend intensifier les screenings des travailleurs exerçant des fonctions sensibles ou prestant dans des lieux sensibles, rapporte De Tijd vendredi.
Les autorités afghanes seront notamment tenues de resserrer le « screening », la procédure d’admission des soldats afghans.
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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