shona
The verdict
“shona” is uncommon French (frequency #99,642 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,642
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue officielle du Zimbabwe, de la famille bantoue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shona · shona · French
shona · rank #99,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,642
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH showdown
Nearest frequency peer: showdown (+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 « shona »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensori
sensori
365 corpus weight
- serkis
serkis
364 corpus weight
- shona
shona
359 corpus weight
- showdown
showdown
358 corpus weight
- skicross
skicross
354 corpus weight
- slaloms
slaloms
353 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shona » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shona » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shona is uncommon French at frequency #99,642 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue officielle du Zimbabwe, de la famille bantoue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shona in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shona, spelled S-H-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Langue officielle du Zimbabwe, de la famille bantoue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le premier roman en shona – Feso de Salomon Mutswairo (1924-2005) – paraît au Cap en 1956.
This word in other languages
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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