smiles
\ˈsmaɪlz\
The verdict
“smiles” is uncommon French (frequency #93,258 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,258
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de smile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smiles · smiles · French
smiles · rank #93,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,258
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Smirnoff
Nearest frequency peer: Smirnoff (+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 « smiles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sivan
sivan
6,747 corpus weight
- Sizun
Sizun
6,746 corpus weight
- smiles
smiles
6,743 corpus weight
- Smirnoff
Smirnoff
6,742 corpus weight
- Smits
Smits
6,741 corpus weight
- snapper
snapper
6,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « smiles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smiles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsmaɪlz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « smiles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
smiles is uncommon French at frequency #93,258 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsmaɪlz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de smile.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for smiles in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 smiles, spelled S-M-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de smile.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).