skicross
\ski.kʁɔs\
The verdict
“skicross” is uncommon French (frequency #99,647 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,647
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discipline sportive de ski acrobatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skicross · skicross · French
skicross · rank #99,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,647
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slaloms
Nearest frequency peer: slaloms (+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 « skicross »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shona
shona
359 corpus weight
- showdown
showdown
358 corpus weight
- skicross
skicross
354 corpus weight
- slaloms
slaloms
353 corpus weight
- Smit
Smit
352 corpus weight
- socca
socca
350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « skicross » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skicross |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ski.kʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skicross » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skicross is uncommon French at frequency #99,647 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ski.kʁɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Discipline sportive de ski acrobatique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for skicross in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is skicross, spelled S-K-I-C-R-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1Discipline sportive de ski acrobatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skicross appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arrivée à la cinquième place de l’épreuve de skicross, vendredi 23 février, Alizée Barron obtient le meilleur classement français de ces Jeux olympiques d’hiver dans cette discipline, habituellement dominée par les athlètes tricolores.
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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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