slider
\slaj.dœʁ\
The verdict
“slider” is uncommon French (frequency #88,105 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,105
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Curseur de défilement sur une échelle généralement graduée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slider · slider · French
slider · rank #88,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,105
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Smarties
Nearest frequency peer: Smarties (+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 « slider »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sika
sika
11,901 corpus weight
- sillé
sillé
11,900 corpus weight
- sinister
sinister
11,898 corpus weight
- slider
slider
11,896 corpus weight
- Smarties
Smarties
11,895 corpus weight
- sodomites
sodomites
11,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « slider » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slider |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \slaj.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slider » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slider is uncommon French at frequency #88,105 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \slaj.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for slider, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is slider, spelled S-L-I-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Curseur de défilement sur une échelle généralement graduée.
- 2Balle glissante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slider appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Quand reviens-tu nous voir ? Tu voulais me montrer comment réussir un “slider”. Mon pote Stevie est nul comme batteur…
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).