Skikda
\skik.da\
The verdict
“Skikda” is uncommon French (frequency #84,318 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,318
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de l’Est de l’Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skikda · Skikda · French
Skikda · rank #84,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,318
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH skateurs
Nearest frequency peer: skateurs (-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 « Skikda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sigourney
Sigourney
15,687 corpus weight
- silène
silène
15,686 corpus weight
- sitar
sitar
15,685 corpus weight
- skateurs
skateurs
15,684 corpus weight
- Skikda
Skikda
15,683 corpus weight
- slopestyle
slopestyle
15,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Skikda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Skikda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \skik.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Skikda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Skikda is uncommon French at frequency #84,318 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \skik.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Skikda in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Skikda, spelled S-K-I-K-D-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de l’Est de l’Algérie.
- 2Wilaya dont cette ville est le chef-lieu.
Synonyms
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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