Shylock
The verdict
“Shylock” is an uncommon French word, ranked #81,576 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #81,576
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personnage d’usurier de la pièce Le Marchand de Venise de William Shakespeare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shylock |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Shylock” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Shylock is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #81,576 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personnage d’usurier de la pièce Le Marchand de Venise de William Shakespeare.".
Shylock doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Shylock, spelled S-H-Y-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1Personnage d’usurier de la pièce Le Marchand de Venise de William Shakespeare.
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 “Shylock”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-H-Y-L-O-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.