shunt
\ʃœnt\
The verdict
“shunt” is uncommon French (frequency #68,651 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,651
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif de faible impédance qui permet au courant de passer d'un point à un autre d'un circuit électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shunt · shunt · French
shunt · rank #68,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,651
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shootings
Nearest frequency peer: shootings (-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 « shunt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sessiles
sessiles
31,353 corpus weight
- setting
setting
31,352 corpus weight
- shootings
shootings
31,351 corpus weight
- shunt
shunt
31,350 corpus weight
- situez
situez
31,348 corpus weight
- skatepark
skatepark
31,347 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shunt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shunt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃœnt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shunt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shunt is uncommon French at frequency #68,651 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃœnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for shunt in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is shunt, spelled S-H-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1Dispositif de faible impédance qui permet au courant de passer d'un point à un autre d'un circuit électrique.
- 2Dérivation entre des organes qui permet le passage du sang ou d'autres fluides corporels, et peut être pathologique ou thérapeutique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shunt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un filtre anti-harmonique shunt sera connecté entre la phase et le neutre du réseau (donc en parallèle avec la charge) et présentera une impédance faible à la fréquence à éliminer.
Lors de shunt gauche-droite, il se produit une hyperhémie pulmonaire aux dépens de la grande circulation. (« Malformations cardiaques avec shunt gauche-droite (acyanotiques) »)
Synonyms
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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