shiba
\ʃi.ba\
The verdict
“shiba” is uncommon French (frequency #79,744 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,744
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de shiba inu (race de chien).
Corpus desk
Index FR-shiba · shiba · French
shiba · rank #79,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,744
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sheep
Nearest frequency peer: sheep (-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 « shiba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- servet
servet
20,260 corpus weight
- sheep
sheep
20,258 corpus weight
- shiba
shiba
20,257 corpus weight
- signifiaient
signifiaient
20,256 corpus weight
- silure
silure
20,255 corpus weight
- silurien
silurien
20,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shiba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shiba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shiba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shiba is uncommon French at frequency #79,744 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de shiba inu (race de chien).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shiba in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is shiba, spelled S-H-I-B-A.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de shiba inu (race de chien).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shiba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh ! bonheur, il est venu avec son chien Natsu, un superbe shiba ramené du Japon, pays qu’il adore et qui l’inspire.
Le shiba, collé au petit corps de Rei, tourna brusquement la tête et fixa sur le visage éberlué du visiteur du soir un regard interrogateur.
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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