shad
\ʃad\
The verdict
“shad” is uncommon French (frequency #81,568 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,568
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leurre souple utilisé à la pêche au lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shad · shad · French
shad · rank #81,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,568
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH servirons
Nearest frequency peer: servirons (-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 « shad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensi
sensi
18,438 corpus weight
- sensuelleme…
sensuellement
18,437 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalité
18,436 corpus weight
- servirons
servirons
18,434 corpus weight
- shad
shad
18,433 corpus weight
- shim
shim
18,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃad\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shad is uncommon French at frequency #81,568 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Leurre souple utilisé à la pêche au lancer.".
shad has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is shad, spelled S-H-A-D.
Definition
- 1Leurre souple utilisé à la pêche au lancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a pris un sandre avec un shad blanc ultra souple.
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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