skeet
\skit\
The verdict
“skeet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport de tir visant à atteindre deux plateaux d’argile lancés simultanément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skeet · skeet · French
skeet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skeet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skeet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skeet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \skit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport de tir visant à atteindre deux plateaux d’argile lancés simultanément.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for skeet, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is skeet, spelled S-K-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sport de tir visant à atteindre deux plateaux d’argile lancés simultanément.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.