shrewd
\ʃɹuːd\
The verdict
“shrewd” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malin, astucieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shrewd · shrewd · French
shrewd · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 | shrewd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃɹuːd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
shrewd is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃɹuːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malin, astucieux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shrewd in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 shrewd, spelled S-H-R-E-W-D.
Definition
- 1Malin, astucieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shrewd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I met two kinds of leaders in big tech. Burns was one of them. I called him that not because he was a crony or an evil old man, but because he had a habit of posting Mr. Burns memes in Slack whenever he pitched an especially shrewd plan.
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.