Smits
\smits\
The verdict
“Smits” is uncommon French (frequency #93,260 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,260
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néérlandais
Corpus desk
Index FR-smits · Smits · French
Smits · rank #93,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,260
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 « Smits »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- smiles
smiles
6,743 corpus weight
- Smirnoff
Smirnoff
6,742 corpus weight
- Smits
Smits
6,741 corpus weight
- snapper
snapper
6,740 corpus weight
- snapshot
snapshot
6,739 corpus weight
- solénoïde
solénoïde
6,737 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Smits » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Smits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \smits\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Smits » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Smits is uncommon French at frequency #93,260 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \smits\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néérlandais".
No misspelling variants are generated for Smits in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Smits, spelled S-M-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néérlandais
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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