slime
\slajm\
The verdict
“slime” is uncommon French (frequency #77,937 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,937
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâte gluante et élastique dont les propriétés rhéologiques particulières en font un jouet original. Il est obtenu par l'action du borax sur alcool polyvinylique, qui forme un réseau gélifié aux pro...
Corpus desk
Index FR-slime · slime · French
slime · rank #77,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,937
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SMP
Nearest frequency peer: SMP (+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 « slime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- signeront
signeront
22,069 corpus weight
- signets
signets
22,068 corpus weight
- Sioule
Sioule
22,067 corpus weight
- slime
slime
22,064 corpus weight
- SMP
SMP
22,063 corpus weight
- softs
softs
22,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « slime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \slajm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slime is uncommon French at frequency #77,937 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \slajm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pâte gluante et élastique dont les propriétés rhéologiques particulières en font un jouet original. Il est obtenu par l'action du borax sur alcool polyvinylique, qui forme un réseau gélifié aux pro...".
No misspelling variants are generated for slime in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 slime, spelled S-L-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Pâte gluante et élastique dont les propriétés rhéologiques particulières en font un jouet original. Il est obtenu par l'action du borax sur alcool polyvinylique, qui forme un réseau gélifié aux propriétés non-newtoniennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après les bracelets rainbow loom, voici venu le temps du slime, une pâte visqueuse à souhait que petits et grands fabriquent eux-mêmes et malaxent pendant des heures.
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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