shoshone
\ʃɔ.ʃɔn\
The verdict
“shoshone” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue amérindienne du sous-groupe numique de la famille uto-aztèque parlée dans les montagnes Rocheuses aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shoshone · shoshone · French
shoshone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoshone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.ʃɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shoshone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shoshone is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɔ.ʃɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue amérindienne du sous-groupe numique de la famille uto-aztèque parlée dans les montagnes Rocheuses aux États-Unis.".
shoshone has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shoshone, spelled S-H-O-S-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Langue amérindienne du sous-groupe numique de la famille uto-aztèque parlée dans les montagnes Rocheuses aux États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shoshone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est à dire que Lewis ou Clark parlaient en anglais à Labiche qui traduisait en français à Charbonneau qui le disait en hidatsa à sa femme qui elle-même traduisait le tout en shoshone pour le chef Shoshone et les réponses suivaient le même chemin ce qui laissait tout de même planer un doute sur les précisions émises de part et d’autre ! dit Benjamin en r…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.