shaykh
\ʃɛjx\
The verdict
“shaykh” is uncommon French (frequency #83,379 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,379
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de cheik.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shaykh · shaykh · French
shaykh · rank #83,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,379
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shogunat
Nearest frequency peer: shogunat (+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 « shaykh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensibilisée
sensibilisée
16,628 corpus weight
- shaming
shaming
16,626 corpus weight
- shaykh
shaykh
16,622 corpus weight
- shogunat
shogunat
16,620 corpus weight
- siamoise
siamoise
16,619 corpus weight
- Simo
Simo
16,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shaykh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shaykh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛjx\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shaykh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shaykh is uncommon French at frequency #83,379 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛjx\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de cheik.".
No misspelling variants are generated for shaykh in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 shaykh, spelled S-H-A-Y-K-H.
Definition
- 1Variante de cheik.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shaykh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est un détail mais la plupart des médias ont diffusé la photo d'un autre shaykh Abd al-Hadi, Abu Anas Abd al-Hadi basé aux USA, qui n'est pas le shaykh algérien de Marseille, Abu Abd al-Halim Abd al-Hadi Doudi, comme on peut le constater sur la seconde photo de @laprovence pic.twitter.com/96oQhQlfIx
Découvrez shaykh Omar Jabbie, un Gambien à la récitation apaisante.
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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