Shylock
The verdict
“Shylock” is uncommon French (frequency #81,576 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,576
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage d’usurier de la pièce Le Marchand de Venise de William Shakespeare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shylock · Shylock · French
Shylock · rank #81,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,576
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH showrunner
Nearest frequency peer: showrunner (-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 « Shylock »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shinkansen
shinkansen
18,428 corpus weight
- showrunner
showrunner
18,426 corpus weight
- Shylock
Shylock
18,425 corpus weight
- siel
siel
18,424 corpus weight
- sifflante
sifflante
18,423 corpus weight
- silla
silla
18,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Shylock » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Shylock » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Shylock is uncommon French at frequency #81,576 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Shylock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils remercient Dieu si humblement de tout le sang qu’ils font répandre, de toutes les villes qu’ils brûlent ou bombardent, de tous les pillages commis en leur nom ! Ils vont rétablir en Allemagne le culte des saints. J’imagine que saint Shylock et saint Mandrin seront destinés à fêter la campagne de France et le bombardement de Paris.
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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