skiff
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#91,176
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
skiff is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bateau assez léger pour générer une vague de sillage et la dépasser en passant au déjaugeage. Pronounced \skif\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skiff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for skiff is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \skif\. Corpus data places it at rank #91,176 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for skiff in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is skiff, spelled S-K-I-F-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bateau assez léger pour générer une vague de sillage et la dépasser en passant au déjaugeage.
- 2La plupart des dériveurs apparus après les années 1990 et possédant un spinnaker asymétrique.
- 3Embarcation annexe d’un thonier senneur congélateur, utilisé pour maintenir la senne lorsque le thonier fait le cercle autour du poisson.
- 4Embarcation pour une personne, longue et fine, utilisée en aviron.
- 5Au début du XX^(ème) siècle, type de carrosserie (souvent en bois) copié sur les bateaux du même nom.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #91,176 in French
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