screw
\skɹuː\
The verdict
“screw” is uncommon French (frequency #83,368 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,368
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gardien (de prison).
Corpus desk
Index FR-screw · screw · French
screw · rank #83,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,368
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scripte
Nearest frequency peer: scripte (+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 « screw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- schnell
schnell
16,637 corpus weight
- Schweizer
Schweizer
16,636 corpus weight
- Scotto
Scotto
16,635 corpus weight
- screw
screw
16,633 corpus weight
- scripte
scripte
16,632 corpus weight
- seeing
seeing
16,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « screw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | screw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɹuː\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « screw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
screw is uncommon French at frequency #83,368 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skɹuː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gardien (de prison).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for screw, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is screw, spelled S-C-R-E-W.
Definition
- 1Gardien (de prison).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how screw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis convaincue aujourd'hui que la pire chose à faire pour donner envie à un criminel de reprendre le droit chemin du travail légal en société est de lui faire coudre des uniformes de screws à longueur de journée !
Une fois le screw éloigné, Gilbert a brisé le silence et s’est tourné vers moi de nouveau.
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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