shade
[ʃeɪd]
The verdict
“shade” is uncommon French (frequency #54,257 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,257
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shade · shade · French
shade · rank #54,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,257
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sensationnelle
Nearest frequency peer: sensationnelle (-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 « shade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- secourue
secourue
45,747 corpus weight
- sensationne…
sensationnelle
45,745 corpus weight
- shade
shade
45,744 corpus weight
- shady
shady
45,743 corpus weight
- shana
shana
45,742 corpus weight
- ships
ships
45,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃeɪd] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shade is uncommon French at frequency #54,257 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃeɪd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for shade in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 shade, spelled S-H-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ombre.
- 2Teinte, nuance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stay out of the sun. The temperature is already 40 degrees even in the shade.
The room will look better if you paint it a slightly lighter shade of blue.
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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