shopper

\ʃɔ.pe\

/\ʃɔ.pe\/ verb

The verdict

“shopper” is uncommon French (frequency #56,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,925
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratiquer le shopping, aller dans les magasins pour voir ce qu’ils proposent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-shopper · shopper · French

shopper · rank #56,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,925
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH señora

Nearest frequency peer: señora (-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 « shopper »

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 « shopper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for shopper
PropertyValue
Headwordshopper
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʃɔ.pe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#56,925
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « shopper » en français

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « señora » (#56,924), « sextape » (#56,923), « sidération » (#56,927). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « shopper » est au #56,925. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

shopper is uncommon French at frequency #56,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɔ.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for shopper in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 shopper, spelled S-H-O-P-P-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pratiquer le shopping, aller dans les magasins pour voir ce qu’ils proposent.
  2. 2
    Acheter au cours d’une séance de shopping.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pour shopper : un petit tour au Venus Fort, un étonnant centre commercial décoré comme une ville italienne du XVIIIᵉ siècle, s’impose.
  2. Où shopper quand il pleut ?

Synonyms

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 "shopper"?
"shopper" is spelled S-H-O-P-P-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɔ.pe\.
What does "shopper" mean?
As a verb, "shopper" means: Pratiquer le shopping, aller dans les magasins pour voir ce qu’ils proposent.
How do you pronounce "shopper"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "shopper" is \ʃɔ.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "shopper" come from?
"shopper" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list