shunt
\ʃœnt\
The verdict
“shunt” is an uncommon French word, ranked #68,651 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #68,651
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif de faible impédance qui permet au courant de passer d'un point à un autre d'un circuit électrique.
| 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) |
Where “shunt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for shunt is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃœnt\. Corpus data places it at rank #68,651 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
Synonyms
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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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Using “shunt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-H-U-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃœnt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.