Scudéry
\sky.de.ʁi\
The verdict
“Scudéry” is uncommon French (frequency #89,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,153
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France, surtout connu pour Georges de Scudéry (1601-1667), dramaturge et poète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scudery · Scudéry · French
Scudéry · rank #89,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,153
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SCT
Nearest frequency peer: SCT (-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 « Scudéry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Schule
Schule
10,852 corpus weight
- scrutateurs
scrutateurs
10,850 corpus weight
- SCT
SCT
10,849 corpus weight
- Scudéry
Scudéry
10,848 corpus weight
- segmenter
segmenter
10,845 corpus weight
- seiner
seiner
10,844 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Scudéry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scudéry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sky.de.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Scudéry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Scudéry is uncommon French at frequency #89,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sky.de.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France, surtout connu pour Georges de Scudéry (1601-1667), dramaturge et poète.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Scudéry, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Scudéry, spelled S-C-U-D-É-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France, surtout connu pour Georges de Scudéry (1601-1667), dramaturge et poète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Scudéry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On parla aussi des vers de M. de Scudéry, un des plus beaux esprits du temps, que le marquis trouvait parfaits, mais légèrement soporifiques, préférant à Lygdamon et Lydias les Rodomontades du capitaine Fracasse. C’était un homme de goût que ce marquis !
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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