shack
The verdict
“shack” is uncommon French (frequency #62,633 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,633
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cabane, chaumière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shack · shack · French
shack · rank #62,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,633
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sereines
Nearest frequency peer: sereines (-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 « shack »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Seiji
Seiji
37,372 corpus weight
- sereines
sereines
37,369 corpus weight
- shack
shack
37,368 corpus weight
- shaft
shaft
37,367 corpus weight
- shire
shire
37,365 corpus weight
- Simonet
Simonet
37,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shack » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shack » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shack is uncommon French at frequency #62,633 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cabane, chaumière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for shack in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shack, spelled S-H-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Cabane, chaumière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après, on s’est retrouvé dans un shack, un endroit indéfinissable, en rez-de-chaussée, avec quelques tables et pas de lumière et, sur une piste plutôt large pour l’établissement, des couples noirs qui dansaient ce qui ne s’appelait pas encore le rock’n’roll et qu’ils appelaient le R’N’B.
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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