Shanxi
\ʃan.si\
The verdict
“Shanxi” is uncommon French (frequency #89,167 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,167
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province du nord-est de la Chine, dont le chef-lieu est Taiyuan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shanxi · Shanxi · French
Shanxi · rank #89,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,167
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shalimar
Nearest frequency peer: Shalimar (-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 « Shanxi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- shoulder
shoulder
10,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Shanxi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shanxi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃan.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Shanxi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Shanxi is uncommon French at frequency #89,167 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃan.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Province du nord-est de la Chine, dont le chef-lieu est Taiyuan.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Shanxi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Shanxi, spelled S-H-A-N-X-I.
Definition
- 1Province du nord-est de la Chine, dont le chef-lieu est Taiyuan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Shanxi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le changement de couleur spectaculaire qui s’est produit sur le lac salé de Yuncheng, dans la province chinoise du Shanxi (ouest du pays), est un phénomène naturel ….
This word in other languages
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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