skinhead
\skin.ʔɛd\
The verdict
“skinhead” is uncommon French (frequency #51,135 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,135
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne appartenant à un mouvement dont les codes sont l’idéologie de la race blanche, le racisme et l’homophobie, organisation affiliée au Ku Klux Klan, les codes vestimentaires sont d'avoir le c...
Corpus desk
Index FR-skinhead · skinhead · French
skinhead · rank #51,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,135
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sixties
Nearest frequency peer: sixties (-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 « skinhead »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sidéral
sidéral
48,869 corpus weight
- signor
signor
48,868 corpus weight
- sixties
sixties
48,867 corpus weight
- skinhead
skinhead
48,866 corpus weight
- SNSM
SNSM
48,864 corpus weight
- softball
softball
48,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « skinhead » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skinhead |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skin.ʔɛd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skinhead » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skinhead is uncommon French at frequency #51,135 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skin.ʔɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne appartenant à un mouvement dont les codes sont l’idéologie de la race blanche, le racisme et l’homophobie, organisation affiliée au Ku Klux Klan, les codes vestimentaires sont d'avoir le c...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for skinhead, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is skinhead, spelled S-K-I-N-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Personne appartenant à un mouvement dont les codes sont l’idéologie de la race blanche, le racisme et l’homophobie, organisation affiliée au Ku Klux Klan, les codes vestimentaires sont d'avoir le crâne rasé, de porter des bottes et qui prône l’agressivité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how skinhead appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un deuxième skinhead les rejoignit.
Témoin clé au procès de trois skinheads jugés pour la mort de l’antifasciste Clément Méric, Serge Ayoub, figure tutélaire de la jeunesse d’ultra-droite, a fait savoir hier à la cour d’assises qu’il ne serait pas présent.
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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