smack
\smak\
The verdict
“smack” is uncommon French (frequency #85,277 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire caboteur anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smack · smack · French
smack · rank #85,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,277
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soba
Nearest frequency peer: soba (+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 « smack »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shinobi
shinobi
14,728 corpus weight
- signifiante
signifiante
14,727 corpus weight
- smack
smack
14,724 corpus weight
- soba
soba
14,723 corpus weight
- socia
socia
14,722 corpus weight
- soignera
soignera
14,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « smack » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « smack » en français
Rare enough to double-check
smack is uncommon French at frequency #85,277 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \smak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Navire caboteur anglais.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for smack, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is smack, spelled S-M-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Navire caboteur anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bâtimens de deuxième classe, connus sous le nom d'allèges, comprennent les heux, les smacks, les gribanes, les bisquines ou flambardes, etc. : ils appartiennent de plus près à la navigation de la Seine.
Médaille décernée au sieur B… capitaine du smack anglais Prince-of-Orange, de Colchester.
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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