skyline
\skaj.lajn\
The verdict
“skyline” is uncommon French (frequency #54,266 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,266
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne d’horizon urbaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skyline · skyline · French
skyline · rank #54,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,266
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sisteron
Nearest frequency peer: Sisteron (-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 « skyline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sidonie
Sidonie
45,738 corpus weight
- signora
signora
45,737 corpus weight
- Sisteron
Sisteron
45,736 corpus weight
- skyline
skyline
45,735 corpus weight
- snobs
snobs
45,734 corpus weight
- socioprofes…
socioprofessionnelle
45,733 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « skyline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skyline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skaj.lajn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « skyline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
skyline is uncommon French at frequency #54,266 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skaj.lajn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ligne d’horizon urbaine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for skyline in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is skyline, spelled S-K-Y-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ligne d’horizon urbaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skyline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La skyline du quartier de la Part-Dieu est dominée par le Crayon et la tour Incity.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).