slope
\sləʊp\
The verdict
“slope” is uncommon French (frequency #86,190 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,190
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pente, talus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slope · slope · French
slope · rank #86,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,190
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slasher
Nearest frequency peer: slasher (-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 « slope »
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 « slope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sləʊp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slope is uncommon French at frequency #86,190 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sləʊp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for slope in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 slope, spelled S-L-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Pente, talus.
- 2Dérivée, pente (d’une courbe mathématique).
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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