slender
\slɛn.də(r)\
The verdict
“slender” is uncommon French (frequency #91,177 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,177
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fluet, mince.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slender · slender · French
slender · rank #91,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,177
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH skiff
Nearest frequency peer: skiff (-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 « slender »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- silicones
silicones
8,828 corpus weight
- singers
singers
8,827 corpus weight
- sismicité
sismicité
8,826 corpus weight
- skiff
skiff
8,825 corpus weight
- slender
slender
8,824 corpus weight
- sloop
sloop
8,823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « slender » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slender |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \slɛn.də(r)\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slender » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slender is uncommon French at frequency #91,177 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \slɛn.də(r)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fluet, mince.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for slender, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is slender, spelled S-L-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fluet, mince.
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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