shuttle
\ˈʃatlə\
The verdict
“shuttle” is uncommon French (frequency #72,738 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,738
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de shuttlen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shuttle · shuttle · French
shuttle · rank #72,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,738
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shiloh
Nearest frequency peer: Shiloh (-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 « shuttle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sexys
sexys
27,266 corpus weight
- Shiloh
Shiloh
27,264 corpus weight
- shuttle
shuttle
27,263 corpus weight
- shérifs
shérifs
27,262 corpus weight
- siciliennes
siciliennes
27,261 corpus weight
- sifflait
sifflait
27,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shuttle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shuttle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈʃatlə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shuttle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shuttle is uncommon French at frequency #72,738 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈʃatlə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for shuttle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 shuttle, spelled S-H-U-T-T-L-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de shuttlen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de shuttlen.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de shuttlen.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de shuttlen.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).