showdown

\ʃɔ.don\

/\ʃɔ.don\/ noun

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The verdict

“showdown” is uncommon French (frequency #99,643 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,643
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handisport de compétition et d’adresse à destination principale des mal-voyants, consistant à renvoyer une balle en plastique contenant des billes en métal dans les filets adverses situés au bout d...

Corpus desk

Index FR-showdown · showdown · French

showdown · rank #99,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,643
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH shona

Nearest frequency peer: shona (-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 « showdown »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for showdown
PropertyValue
Headwordshowdown
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɔ.don\
Letters8
Frequency rank#99,643
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « showdown » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.showdowntombe 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: « shona » (#99,642), « skicross » (#99,647), « slaloms » (#99,648). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « showdown » est au #99,643. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

showdown is uncommon French at frequency #99,643 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɔ.don\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Handisport de compétition et d’adresse à destination principale des mal-voyants, consistant à renvoyer une balle en plastique contenant des billes en métal dans les filets adverses situés au bout d...".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for showdown, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is showdown, spelled S-H-O-W-D-O-W-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Handisport de compétition et d’adresse à destination principale des mal-voyants, consistant à renvoyer une balle en plastique contenant des billes en métal dans les filets adverses situés au bout d’une longue table de jeu divisée en deux par une paroi sous laquelle la balle doit passer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. C’est à Yerres que va se tenir samedi 22 février le premier tournoi national de showdown en France.
  2. En plein essor actuellement, en raison des sensations multiples qu’il procure et de l’attrait grandissant des pratiquants, hommes et femmes, jeunes et moins jeunes, non-voyants, mal-voyants ou voyants mis en situation, le showdown suscite un véritable engouement ces dernières années en France.

This word in other languages

showdown(English)

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 "showdown"?
"showdown" is spelled S-H-O-W-D-O-W-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɔ.don\.
What does "showdown" mean?
As a noun, "showdown" means: Handisport de compétition et d’adresse à destination principale des mal-voyants, consistant à renvoyer une balle en plastique contenant des billes en métal dans les filets adverses situés au bout d...
How do you pronounce "showdown"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "showdown" is \ʃɔ.don\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

skicross#99,647secundus#99,631savetier#99,624spécisme#99,665

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list