skunk
The verdict
“skunk” is uncommon French (frequency #69,436 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,436
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouffette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skunk · skunk · French
skunk · rank #69,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,436
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simplex
Nearest frequency peer: simplex (-3 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 « skunk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- signerait
signerait
30,570 corpus weight
- signèrent
signèrent
30,569 corpus weight
- simplex
simplex
30,568 corpus weight
- skunk
skunk
30,565 corpus weight
- soulagent
soulagent
30,561 corpus weight
- sourcing
sourcing
30,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « skunk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skunk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skunk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skunk is uncommon French at frequency #69,436 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for skunk, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is skunk, spelled S-K-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1Mouffette.
- 2Variété de cannabis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how skunk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
il se souvient du nom du joint, on appelle ça de la skunk, il est resté verdâtre pendant trois heures et l’eau froide du lavabo n’y put rien
Grâce à eux, une estafette avait fait le trajet depuis Mons avec de la skunk des Pays-Bas et un marocain presque rouge qui vous donnait envie de tremper des cookies dans du lait chaud en regardant des films de Meg Ryan.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).