skater
\skɛ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“skater” is uncommon French (frequency #61,150 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,150
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne pratiquant le skateboard ou skate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skater · skater · French
skater · rank #61,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,150
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH situaient
Nearest frequency peer: situaient (-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 « skater »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sins
sins
38,854 corpus weight
- SIRET
SIRET
38,853 corpus weight
- situaient
situaient
38,852 corpus weight
- skater
skater
38,851 corpus weight
- sniff
sniff
38,850 corpus weight
- solano
solano
38,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « skater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɛ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skater » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skater is uncommon French at frequency #61,150 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skɛ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne pratiquant le skateboard ou skate.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for skater, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is skater, spelled S-K-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne pratiquant le skateboard ou skate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On y skatait pas mal, on y picolait encore plus et quand les temps étaient cléments, on y trouvait du bon shit et quelques meufs vraiment canons.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).