shameless
The verdict
“shameless” is uncommon French (frequency #67,878 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,878
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impudique, éhonté, effronté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shameless · shameless · French
shameless · rank #67,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,878
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sequins
Nearest frequency peer: sequins (-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 « shameless »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scellant
scellant
32,127 corpus weight
- segura
segura
32,126 corpus weight
- sequins
sequins
32,124 corpus weight
- shameless
shameless
32,123 corpus weight
- Shlomo
Shlomo
32,121 corpus weight
- simultanéité
simultanéité
32,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shameless » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shameless |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shameless » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shameless is uncommon French at frequency #67,878 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Impudique, éhonté, effronté.".
shameless doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shameless, spelled S-H-A-M-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Impudique, éhonté, effronté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shameless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You can't go out on the street wearing that! How can you be so shameless?
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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