slasher
\sla.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“slasher” is uncommon French (frequency #86,189 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,189
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-genre de film d’horreur, où un tueur psychopathe élimine un à un les personnages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slasher · slasher · French
slasher · rank #86,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,189
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slope
Nearest frequency peer: slope (+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 « slasher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siglo
siglo
13,815 corpus weight
- Sinensis
Sinensis
13,814 corpus weight
- slasher
slasher
13,812 corpus weight
- slope
slope
13,811 corpus weight
- sociabiliser
sociabiliser
13,809 corpus weight
- solidifié
solidifié
13,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « slasher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slasher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sla.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slasher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slasher is uncommon French at frequency #86,189 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sla.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for slasher, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is slasher, spelled S-L-A-S-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de film d’horreur, où un tueur psychopathe élimine un à un les personnages.
- 2Personne exerçant simultanément plusieurs activités professionnelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slasher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Premièrement le côté massacre est laissé de côté, il ne s’agit même pas d’un slasher car il n’y a que deux victimes dont une qui n’est même pas "slashée".
Hommage aux grands noms du fantastique, tels qu’Ed Wood ou encore Lucio Fulci, Terrifier 2 offre une madeleine empoisonnée qui évoque à la fois les « slashers » des années 1980 (les mises en scène de meurtres d’un tueur psychopathe) et les délires d’Herschell Gordon Lewis (Orgie sanglante, 2000 Maniaques, The Wizard of Gore).
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).