slack
\slak\
The verdict
“slack” is uncommon French (frequency #59,642 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,642
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de slackline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slack · slack · French
slack · rank #59,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,642
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sinécure
Nearest frequency peer: sinécure (-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 « slack »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sila
sila
40,363 corpus weight
- Sintra
Sintra
40,361 corpus weight
- sinécure
sinécure
40,360 corpus weight
- slack
slack
40,359 corpus weight
- sociables
sociables
40,357 corpus weight
- sortirons
sortirons
40,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « slack » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \slak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slack » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slack is uncommon French at frequency #59,642 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \slak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for slack, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is slack, spelled S-L-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de slackline.
- 2Pantalon lâche, peu serré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'équipement pour faire du slack est simple : Une sangle, 2 longes et 2 points d’attaches sont nécessaires.
Sturmer était vêtu d’un slack gris, sorte de pyjama de nylon qu’il étrennait pour la circonstance.
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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