shellac
The verdict
“shellac” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Laque issue de la sécrétion d’une cochenille asiatique, Kerria lacca, servant de verni dans plusieurs industries, notamment agro-alimentaire et pharmaceutique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shellac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shellac” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for shellac is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Laque issue de la sécrétion d’une cochenille asiatique, Kerria lacca, servant de verni dans plusieurs industries, notamment agro-alimentaire et pharmaceutique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shellac in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shellac, spelled S-H-E-L-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Laque issue de la sécrétion d’une cochenille asiatique, Kerria lacca, servant de verni dans plusieurs industries, notamment agro-alimentaire et pharmaceutique.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “shellac”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-H-E-L-L-A-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.