shérifs
\ʃe.ʁif\
The verdict
“shérifs” is uncommon French (frequency #72,739 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,739
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de shérif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sherifs · shérifs · French
shérifs · rank #72,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,739
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shuttle
Nearest frequency peer: shuttle (-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 « shérifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shiloh
Shiloh
27,264 corpus weight
- shuttle
shuttle
27,263 corpus weight
- shérifs
shérifs
27,262 corpus weight
- siciliennes
siciliennes
27,261 corpus weight
- sifflait
sifflait
27,260 corpus weight
- Sihanouk
Sihanouk
27,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shérifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shérifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃe.ʁif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shérifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shérifs is uncommon French at frequency #72,739 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃe.ʁif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de shérif.".
shérifs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is shérifs, spelled S-H-É-R-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de shérif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shérifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La voix désincarnée qui commente ces images (et que l’on identifiera bien plus tard comme celle de Bell) évoque avec nostalgie l’époque où les shérifs (old timers) n’avaient nul besoin d’armes à feu.
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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