shinto

\ʃin.to\

/\ʃin.to\/ adj

The verdict

“shinto” is uncommon French (frequency #86,184 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,184
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au shintoïsme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-shinto · shinto · French

shinto · rank #86,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,184
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sheehan

Nearest frequency peer: Sheehan (-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 « shinto »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shinto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for shinto
PropertyValue
Headwordshinto
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʃin.to\
Letters6
Frequency rank#86,184
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « shinto » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).shintotombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Sheehan » (#86,182), « siglo » (#86,186), « SGR » (#86,181). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « shinto » est au #86,184. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

shinto is uncommon French at frequency #86,184 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃin.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au shintoïsme.".

shinto doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 shinto, spelled S-H-I-N-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif au shintoïsme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how shinto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Car les sanctuaires shinto sont aussi des lieux de vie, de marchés, de fêtes, de promenades, au cœur de la vie japonaise.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "shinto"?
"shinto" is spelled S-H-I-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃin.to\.
What does "shinto" mean?
As an adjective, "shinto" means: Relatif au shintoïsme.
How do you pronounce "shinto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "shinto" is \ʃin.to\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "shinto" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shinto", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list