sheep
\ʃip\
The verdict
“sheep” is uncommon French (frequency #79,743 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,743
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sheep · sheep · French
sheep · rank #79,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,743
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shiba
Nearest frequency peer: shiba (+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 « sheep »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensitif
sensitif
20,262 corpus weight
- servet
servet
20,260 corpus weight
- sheep
sheep
20,258 corpus weight
- shiba
shiba
20,257 corpus weight
- signifiaient
signifiaient
20,256 corpus weight
- silure
silure
20,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sheep » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sheep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃip\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sheep » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sheep is uncommon French at frequency #79,743 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sheep, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 sheep, spelled S-H-E-E-P.
Definition
- 1Mouton.
- 2Mouton de Panurge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sheep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sheep is in the ship.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).