shaker

/\ʃɛ.kœʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,537

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

shaker is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bouteille, généralement métallique, munie d’un large couvercle amovible pour mélanger intimement les ingrédients composant un cocktail. Pronounced \ʃɛ.kœʁ\. Often confused with Shane and snake.

Key facts for shaker
PropertyValue
Headwordshaker
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɛ.kœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#41,537
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of shaker in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for shaker is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛ.kœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,537 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bouteille, généralement métallique, munie d’un large couvercle amovible pour mélanger intimement les ingrédients composant un cocktail.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for shaker, with forms such as "hsaker", "sahker", and "shaekr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Shane", "snake", "share", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is shaker, spelled S-H-A-K-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bouteille, généralement métallique, munie d’un large couvercle amovible pour mélanger intimement les ingrédients composant un cocktail.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hsaker,sahker,shaekr,shakerr,shakker,shakre,shhaker,shkaer,sshaker

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for shaker

Misspelling Variants of "shaker"

hsaker6sahker6shaekr6shakerr7shakker7shakre6shhaker7shkaer6
Misspelling Variants of "shaker"

Frequency rank: #41,537 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "shaker"?
"shaker" is spelled S-H-A-K-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɛ.kœʁ\.
What does "shaker" mean?
As a noun, "shaker" means: Bouteille, généralement métallique, munie d’un large couvercle amovible pour mélanger intimement les ingrédients composant un cocktail.
What words are commonly confused with "shaker"?
"shaker" is commonly confused with "Shane", "snake", "share". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "shaker"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "shaker" is \ʃɛ.kœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "shaker" come from?
"shaker" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.