shim
\ʃɪm\
The verdict
“shim” is uncommon French (frequency #81,572 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,572
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shim · shim · French
shim · rank #81,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,572
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shinkansen
Nearest frequency peer: shinkansen (+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 « shim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- servirons
servirons
18,434 corpus weight
- shad
shad
18,433 corpus weight
- shim
shim
18,429 corpus weight
- shinkansen
shinkansen
18,428 corpus weight
- showrunner
showrunner
18,426 corpus weight
- Shylock
Shylock
18,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɪm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shim is uncommon French at frequency #81,572 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɪm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shim, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 shim, spelled S-H-I-M.
Definition
- 1Cale.
- 2Synonyme de polyfill.
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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