shed
\ʃɛd\
The verdict
“shed” is uncommon French (frequency #89,168 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,168
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Combles dissymétriques avec un versant court vitré et à forte pente, puis un versant long, couvert, et à faible pente. Ce type de toiture est utilisée dans les bâtiments industriels pour apporter u...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shed” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shed is uncommon French at frequency #89,168 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Combles dissymétriques avec un versant court vitré et à forte pente, puis un versant long, couvert, et à faible pente. Ce type de toiture est utilisée dans les bâtiments industriels pour apporter u...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shed, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shed, spelled S-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Combles dissymétriques avec un versant court vitré et à forte pente, puis un versant long, couvert, et à faible pente. Ce type de toiture est utilisée dans les bâtiments industriels pour apporter un maximum de luminosité dans les ateliers.
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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Using “shed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-H-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɛd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.