shutdown
\ʃət.da.un\
The verdict
“shutdown” is uncommon French (frequency #65,513 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,513
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêt des activités gouvernementales aux États-Unis à la suite d'un désaccord budgétaire avec le Congrès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shutdown · shutdown · French
shutdown · rank #65,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH severe
Nearest frequency peer: severe (-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 « shutdown »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sentimental…
sentimentalement
34,491 corpus weight
- serpillère
serpillère
34,490 corpus weight
- severe
severe
34,489 corpus weight
- shutdown
shutdown
34,488 corpus weight
- sica
sica
34,487 corpus weight
- signala
signala
34,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shutdown » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shutdown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃət.da.un\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shutdown » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shutdown is uncommon French at frequency #65,513 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃət.da.un\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shutdown, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is shutdown, spelled S-H-U-T-D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Arrêt des activités gouvernementales aux États-Unis à la suite d'un désaccord budgétaire avec le Congrès.
- 2Chez les personnes autistes, situation où la personne développe une apathie en réaction au stress ou à une surcharge sensorielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shutdown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Etats-Unis sont entrés mercredi dans leur 36e jour de blocage budgétaire, battant ainsi le record du plus long shutdown de l’histoire du pays. Depuis le 1er octobre, des centaines de milliers de fonctionnaires fédéraux sont au chômage technique tandis que des centaines de milliers d’autres sont forcés de continuer à travailler. Ils ne reçoivent pas de…
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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