Shéhérazade
\ʃe.e.ʁa.zad\
The verdict
“Shéhérazade” is uncommon French (frequency #80,644 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,644
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage principal et conteuse des Mille et Une Nuits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sheherazade · Shéhérazade · French
Shéhérazade · rank #80,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,644
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shauna
Nearest frequency peer: Shauna (-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 « Shéhérazade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- senators
senators
19,361 corpus weight
- Shauna
Shauna
19,358 corpus weight
- Shéhérazade
Shéhérazade
19,357 corpus weight
- signons
signons
19,356 corpus weight
- sira
sira
19,355 corpus weight
- slap
slap
19,353 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Shéhérazade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shéhérazade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃe.e.ʁa.zad\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Shéhérazade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Shéhérazade is uncommon French at frequency #80,644 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃe.e.ʁa.zad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage principal et conteuse des Mille et Une Nuits.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Shéhérazade, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Shéhérazade, spelled S-H-É-H-É-R-A-Z-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage principal et conteuse des Mille et Une Nuits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Shéhérazade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Originellement, Shéhérazade est la fille ainée du grand vizir de Shahryar.
Elle portait un manteau, genre Shéhérazade, aux manches lâches, étroit du bas, et attaché à la hauteur du ventre par un seul bouton.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).