shuriken
\ʃy.ʁi.kɛn\
The verdict
“shuriken” is uncommon French (frequency #89,171 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,171
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit couteau utilisé par les ninjas comme arme cachée, et parfois comme arme de jet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shuriken · shuriken · French
shuriken · rank #89,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,171
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shoulder
Nearest frequency peer: shoulder (-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 « shuriken »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shed
shed
10,833 corpus weight
- shook
shook
10,832 corpus weight
- shoulder
shoulder
10,831 corpus weight
- shuriken
shuriken
10,830 corpus weight
- sibériens
sibériens
10,829 corpus weight
- significant
significant
10,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shuriken » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shuriken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃy.ʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shuriken » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shuriken is uncommon French at frequency #89,171 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃy.ʁi.kɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit couteau utilisé par les ninjas comme arme cachée, et parfois comme arme de jet.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shuriken, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is shuriken, spelled S-H-U-R-I-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Petit couteau utilisé par les ninjas comme arme cachée, et parfois comme arme de jet.
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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