sheng
\ʃɛŋ\
The verdict
“sheng” is uncommon French (frequency #61,144 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,144
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orgue à bouche chinois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sheng · sheng · French
sheng · rank #61,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,144
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexton
Nearest frequency peer: sexton (-2 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 « sheng »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Seveso
Seveso
38,861 corpus weight
- sevrer
sevrer
38,860 corpus weight
- sexton
sexton
38,859 corpus weight
- sheng
sheng
38,857 corpus weight
- sinistrée
sinistrée
38,855 corpus weight
- sins
sins
38,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sheng » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sheng |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛŋ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sheng » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sheng is uncommon French at frequency #61,144 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orgue à bouche chinois.".
sheng doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sheng, spelled S-H-E-N-G.
Definition
- 1Orgue à bouche chinois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sheng appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le double concerto Double Act de Donghoon Shin, que je vais jouer en Corée en avril prochain et la saison prochaine avec l’Orchestre national de Bretagne, offre un magnifique exemple de cette identité double, dans une sonorité quasi fusionnelle et singulière avec le sheng, orgue à bouche chinois, et avec l’orchestre.
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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