sling
\sliŋ\
The verdict
“sling” is uncommon French (frequency #90,198 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,198
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de solide écharpe en tissu, aux extrémités de laquelle sont fixés deux anneaux, et qui sert au portage les malades.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sling · sling · French
sling · rank #90,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sink
Nearest frequency peer: sink (-2 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 « sling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siempre
siempre
9,808 corpus weight
- simplisme
simplisme
9,806 corpus weight
- sink
sink
9,805 corpus weight
- sling
sling
9,803 corpus weight
- snipe
snipe
9,800 corpus weight
- socratique
socratique
9,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sliŋ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sling is uncommon French at frequency #90,198 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sliŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sling in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sling, spelled S-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Sorte de solide écharpe en tissu, aux extrémités de laquelle sont fixés deux anneaux, et qui sert au portage les malades.
- 2Morceau de cuir suspendu au plafond par quatre chaînes, utilisé dans les relations sexuelles BDSM.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le malade est couché sur le dos, un sling est passé au niveau des dernières dorsales et attaché à un point non perpendiculaire à l'axe du mouvement ; la tête et les bras sont soutenus par des slings attachés à des ressorts de force variable.
Des restaurants et cafés de qualité jusqu’aux sex bars hard avec des slings, des baignoires etc., il y en a pour tous les goûts. Les patrons pas moins internationaux sont un modèle de la réunification européenne : […].
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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