setter
\sɛ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“setter” is uncommon French (frequency #90,188 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,188
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chien d’arrêt britannique, originaire de Grande-Bretagne, et à poil long, utilisé surtout pour chasser le gibier à plumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-setter · setter · French
setter · rank #90,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,188
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexagénaires
Nearest frequency peer: sexagénaires (+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 « setter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- selo
selo
9,818 corpus weight
- semiconduct…
semiconducteurs
9,817 corpus weight
- Senneterre
Senneterre
9,816 corpus weight
- Serengeti
Serengeti
9,815 corpus weight
- setter
setter
9,813 corpus weight
- sexagénaires
sexagénaires
9,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « setter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | setter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « setter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
setter is uncommon French at frequency #90,188 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for setter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is setter, spelled S-E-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chien d’arrêt britannique, originaire de Grande-Bretagne, et à poil long, utilisé surtout pour chasser le gibier à plumes.
- 2Accesseur en modification.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how setter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’arrière, un setter collait sa truffe contre la vitre.
C’était un grand setter doué, comme tous les setters, d’un charme Second Empire ; blond acajou, long-chevelu, l’œil pailleté, il manquait de physionomie, non de distinction.
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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