skippers
\ski.pœʁ\
The verdict
“skippers” is uncommon French (frequency #71,068 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,068
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de skipper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skippers · skippers · French
skippers · rank #71,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,068
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH skeleton
Nearest frequency peer: skeleton (-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 « skippers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siégea
siégea
28,935 corpus weight
- skeleton
skeleton
28,934 corpus weight
- skippers
skippers
28,933 corpus weight
- slice
slice
28,932 corpus weight
- solarium
solarium
28,931 corpus weight
- solex
solex
28,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « skippers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skippers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ski.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skippers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skippers is uncommon French at frequency #71,068 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ski.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de skipper.".
skippers doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 skippers, spelled S-K-I-P-P-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de skipper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skippers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans mon esprit, c’est Philippe qui avait raison et les skippers qui étaient des enfants gâtés.
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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