slug
\ˈslʌɡ\
The verdict
“slug” is uncommon French (frequency #73,561 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Limace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slug · slug · French
slug · rank #73,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,561
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH somptuaires
Nearest frequency peer: somptuaires (+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 « slug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sillonnant
sillonnant
26,443 corpus weight
- skiables
skiables
26,442 corpus weight
- slug
slug
26,440 corpus weight
- somptuaires
somptuaires
26,439 corpus weight
- sonnaient
sonnaient
26,438 corpus weight
- sonnez
sonnez
26,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « slug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈslʌɡ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « slug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
slug is uncommon French at frequency #73,561 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈslʌɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Limace.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for slug, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is slug, spelled S-L-U-G.
Definition
- 1Limace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Slugs look like snails.
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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