smog
\smɔɡ\
The verdict
“smog” is uncommon French (frequency #52,347 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,347
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brume bleutée à roussâtre provenant d’un mélange de polluants atmosphériques qui limite la visibilité dans l’atmosphère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smog · smog · French
smog · rank #52,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,347
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sixièmes
Nearest frequency peer: sixièmes (-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 « smog »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- serpillière
serpillière
47,658 corpus weight
- sixièmes
sixièmes
47,655 corpus weight
- smog
smog
47,654 corpus weight
- soignait
soignait
47,652 corpus weight
- soles
soles
47,651 corpus weight
- solidaireme…
solidairement
47,650 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « smog » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smog |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « smog » en français
Rare enough to double-check
smog is uncommon French at frequency #52,347 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \smɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brume bleutée à roussâtre provenant d’un mélange de polluants atmosphériques qui limite la visibilité dans l’atmosphère.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for smog, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 smog, spelled S-M-O-G.
Definition
- 1Brume bleutée à roussâtre provenant d’un mélange de polluants atmosphériques qui limite la visibilité dans l’atmosphère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michel accéléra pour échapper à la meute, ce qui déclara dans un cumulo-stratus immaculé une toux généralisée et la mise à pied d’une centaine de coursiers égarés dans le smog.
On sait déjà que la Coupe du monde 2022 ne sera pas celle de l’écologie. Le smog de Doha et les gros pick-up américains qui occupent les larges routes locales ne sont pas là pour le démentir
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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