scrum
\skʁœm\
The verdict
“scrum” is uncommon French (frequency #61,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méthode de management agile en développement de logiciels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scrum · scrum · French
scrum · rank #61,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,133
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH screenshots
Nearest frequency peer: screenshots (-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 « scrum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scandaleuse…
scandaleusement
38,871 corpus weight
- scintillant
scintillant
38,870 corpus weight
- screenshots
screenshots
38,869 corpus weight
- scrum
scrum
38,868 corpus weight
- scrutant
scrutant
38,867 corpus weight
- scélérats
scélérats
38,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scrum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁœm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scrum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scrum is uncommon French at frequency #61,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skʁœm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Méthode de management agile en développement de logiciels.".
No misspelling variants are generated for scrum in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 scrum, spelled S-C-R-U-M.
Definition
- 1Méthode de management agile en développement de logiciels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scrum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le principe de base de scrum est de focaliser l’équipe sur une partie limitée et maîtrisable des fonctionnalités à réaliser […].
Le Scrum est une méthode de gestion de projet à 3 têtes
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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