sherpas
\ʃɛʁ.pa\
The verdict
“sherpas” is uncommon French (frequency #77,927 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sherpa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sherpas · sherpas · French
sherpas · rank #77,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,927
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexué
Nearest frequency peer: sexué (-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 « sherpas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sendai
Sendai
22,078 corpus weight
- septièmes
septièmes
22,077 corpus weight
- sexué
sexué
22,076 corpus weight
- sherpas
sherpas
22,074 corpus weight
- Shiraz
Shiraz
22,072 corpus weight
- Shyamalan
Shyamalan
22,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sherpas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sherpas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.pa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sherpas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sherpas is uncommon French at frequency #77,927 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛʁ.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sherpa.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sherpas, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sherpas, spelled S-H-E-R-P-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sherpa.
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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