sheva
The verdict
“sheva” is uncommon French (frequency #77,038 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Les points dont sont munies les lettres hébraïques, qui n’ont pas de voyelles. »
Corpus desk
Index FR-sheva · sheva · French
sheva · rank #77,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,038
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sigean
Nearest frequency peer: Sigean (+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 « sheva »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sganarelle
Sganarelle
22,966 corpus weight
- shared
shared
22,965 corpus weight
- sheva
sheva
22,963 corpus weight
- Sigean
Sigean
22,962 corpus weight
- simplifient
simplifient
22,961 corpus weight
- singleton
singleton
22,960 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sheva » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sheva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sheva » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sheva is uncommon French at frequency #77,038 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "« Les points dont sont munies les lettres hébraïques, qui n’ont pas de voyelles. »".
Zero misspellings are on record for sheva in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sheva, spelled S-H-E-V-A.
Definition
- 1« Les points dont sont munies les lettres hébraïques, qui n’ont pas de voyelles. »
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sheva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Berthelot m’apprit ce qu’on n’enseignait pas au séminaire ; de mon côté, je me mis en devoir de lui apprendre la théologie et l’hébreu. Berthelot acheta une bible hébraïque, qui est encore, je crois, non coupée dans sa bibliothèque. Je dois dire qu’il n’alla pas beaucoup au delà des shevas.
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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