shasta
\ʃas.ta\
The verdict
“shasta” is uncommon French (frequency #94,271 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue amérindienne isolée, rattachée à l’hypothèse hokane parlée en Californie, aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shasta · shasta · French
shasta · rank #94,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexuées
Nearest frequency peer: sexuées (-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 « shasta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Serrault
Serrault
5,734 corpus weight
- Severn
Severn
5,732 corpus weight
- sexuées
sexuées
5,731 corpus weight
- shasta
shasta
5,730 corpus weight
- siberia
siberia
5,727 corpus weight
- sibylles
sibylles
5,726 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shasta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shasta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃas.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shasta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shasta is uncommon French at frequency #94,271 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃas.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue amérindienne isolée, rattachée à l’hypothèse hokane parlée en Californie, aux États-Unis.".
shasta 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shasta, spelled S-H-A-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Langue amérindienne isolée, rattachée à l’hypothèse hokane parlée en Californie, aux États-Unis.
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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