Shalimar
\ʃa.li.maʁ\
The verdict
“Shalimar” is uncommon French (frequency #89,166 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,166
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commercial d’un parfum commercialisé par Guerlain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shalimar · Shalimar · French
Shalimar · rank #89,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shanxi
Nearest frequency peer: Shanxi (+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 « Shalimar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sephiroth
sephiroth
10,838 corpus weight
- Serris
Serris
10,837 corpus weight
- Shalimar
Shalimar
10,835 corpus weight
- Shanxi
Shanxi
10,834 corpus weight
- shed
shed
10,833 corpus weight
- shook
shook
10,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Shalimar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shalimar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.li.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Shalimar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Shalimar is uncommon French at frequency #89,166 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.li.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom commercial d’un parfum commercialisé par Guerlain.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Shalimar in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Shalimar, spelled S-H-A-L-I-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nom commercial d’un parfum commercialisé par Guerlain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Shalimar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’after-shave régnait, tout-puissant. Shalimar capitulait.
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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