Sheehan
The verdict
“Sheehan” is uncommon French (frequency #86,182 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,182
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sheehan · Sheehan · French
Sheehan · rank #86,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,182
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SGR
Nearest frequency peer: SGR (-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 « Sheehan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- serviables
serviables
13,824 corpus weight
- SGR
SGR
13,820 corpus weight
- Sheehan
Sheehan
13,819 corpus weight
- shinto
shinto
13,817 corpus weight
- siglo
siglo
13,815 corpus weight
- Sinensis
Sinensis
13,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sheehan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sheehan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sheehan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sheehan is uncommon French at frequency #86,182 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Sheehan has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Sheehan, spelled S-H-E-E-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sheehan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les doutes autour de l’état de santé de Dan Sheehan persistent, le talonneur du Leinster est resté à Dublin pour évaluer la gravité de sa blessure au pied qui l’avait contraint à quitter le terrain en première mi-temps contre l’Angleterre.
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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