shy
\ʃaɪ\
The verdict
“shy” is uncommon French (frequency #67,112 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,112
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Timide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shy · shy · French
shy · rank #67,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,112
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sesterces
Nearest frequency peer: sesterces (-2 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 « shy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensationna…
sensationnalisme
32,894 corpus weight
- sentions
sentions
32,893 corpus weight
- sesterces
sesterces
32,891 corpus weight
- shy
shy
32,889 corpus weight
- singapourien
singapourien
32,886 corpus weight
- Soares
Soares
32,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaɪ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shy is uncommon French at frequency #67,112 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃaɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Timide.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shy in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is shy, spelled S-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Timide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He is a very shy boy.
Synonyms
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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