shaming
The verdict
“shaming” is uncommon French (frequency #83,375 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,375
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Humiliation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shaming · shaming · French
shaming · rank #83,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,375
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sensibilisée
Nearest frequency peer: sensibilisée (-2 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 « shaming »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scripte
scripte
16,632 corpus weight
- seeing
seeing
16,631 corpus weight
- sensationne…
sensationnels
16,629 corpus weight
- sensibilisée
sensibilisée
16,628 corpus weight
- shaming
shaming
16,626 corpus weight
- shaykh
shaykh
16,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shaming » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shaming |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shaming » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shaming is uncommon French at frequency #83,375 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Humiliation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for shaming in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is shaming, spelled S-H-A-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Humiliation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shaming appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux formes quotidiennes de harcèlement que sont le slut shaming ou le fat shaming (des termes anglo-saxons forgés pour désigner l’humiliation des femmes jugées trop libres sexuellement dans le premier cas, trop grosses dans le second), s’ajoutent des campagnes d’humiliation ciblées d’une ampleur telle qu’elles deviennent de véritables événements médiatiques
Le kink shaming exprimé à l’occasion des prides s'assoit littéralement sur l’histoire ! La pride, c’est ça, c'est mettre les pratiques sexuelles dans l’espace public…
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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