shinto
\ʃin.to\
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
- SGR
SGR
13,820 corpus weight
- Sheehan
Sheehan
13,819 corpus weight
- shinto
shinto
13,817 corpus weight
- siglo
siglo
13,815 corpus weight
- Sinensis
Sinensis
13,814 corpus weight
- slasher
slasher
13,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shinto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shinto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃin.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shinto » en français
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
- 1Relatif au shintoïsme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shinto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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