scrubs
\skʁœb\
The verdict
“scrubs” is uncommon French (frequency #54,252 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,252
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de scrub.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scrubs · scrubs · French
scrubs · rank #54,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,252
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schrödinger
Nearest frequency peer: Schrödinger (-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 « scrubs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saucissons
saucissons
45,753 corpus weight
- saupoudré
saupoudré
45,752 corpus weight
- scandalise
scandalise
45,751 corpus weight
- Schrödinger
Schrödinger
45,750 corpus weight
- scrubs
scrubs
45,749 corpus weight
- secourue
secourue
45,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scrubs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrubs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁœb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scrubs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scrubs is uncommon French at frequency #54,252 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skʁœb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de scrub.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scrubs, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is scrubs, spelled S-C-R-U-B-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de scrub.
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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