snack
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,234
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
snack is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné, d’après Sonnini, par les Tartares à l’antilope proprement dite. — (Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, Paris, 1827, time XLIX, page 872) Pronounced \snak\. Often confused with SNC and SNCF.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \snak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for snack is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \snak\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,234 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for snack, with forms such as "nsack", "sanck", and "snacck". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "SNC", "SNCF", "snap", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is snack, spelled S-N-A-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné, d’après Sonnini, par les Tartares à l’antilope proprement dite. — (Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, Paris, 1827, time XLIX, page 872)
- 2Produit à grignoter quand on a faim.
- 3Restaurant où l’on sert de la nourriture dite rapide (hamburgers, frites, mitraillettes…) et où l’on peut consommer sur place.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nsack,sanck,snacck,snackk,snakc,sncak,snnack,ssnack
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for snack
Misspelling Variants of "snack"
Frequency rank: #27,234 in French
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