settlement
The verdict
“settlement” is uncommon French (frequency #84,309 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,309
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu habité, installation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-settlement · settlement · French
settlement · rank #84,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,309
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seto
Nearest frequency peer: seto (-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 « settlement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- servirais
servirais
15,694 corpus weight
- seto
seto
15,693 corpus weight
- settlement
settlement
15,692 corpus weight
- sexfriend
sexfriend
15,691 corpus weight
- siamoises
siamoises
15,689 corpus weight
- Siffredi
Siffredi
15,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « settlement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | settlement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « settlement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
settlement is uncommon French at frequency #84,309 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu habité, installation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for settlement, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is settlement, spelled S-E-T-T-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Lieu habité, installation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how settlement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces tignasses de feu ont toujours incendié l’Empire britannique. Fidèle au génie de sa race, Archer apportait la catastrophe dans le settlement, chez ses voisins, chez les O’Molloy, sans doute, et probablement – mais oh ! comme mon cœur se sentit mordu ! – dans la vie de Hannah.
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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