snapshot
\snap.ʃɔt\
The verdict
“snapshot” is uncommon French (frequency #93,262 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,262
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d'un système sauvegardé à un instant donné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-snapshot · snapshot · French
snapshot · rank #93,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,262
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH snapper
Nearest frequency peer: snapper (-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 « snapshot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- sordo
sordo
6,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « snapshot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snapshot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \snap.ʃɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « snapshot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
snapshot is uncommon French at frequency #93,262 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \snap.ʃɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État d'un système sauvegardé à un instant donné.".
No misspelling variants are generated for snapshot in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 snapshot, spelled S-N-A-P-S-H-O-T.
Definition
- 1État d'un système sauvegardé à un instant donné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snapshot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le snapshot enregistre les modifications apportées au volume logique cible.
La marquise de Larrio est une des plus élégantes habituées de Cannes où elle est descendue à l'hôtel Martinez. Le "snapshot" a saisi son aimable sourire et son joli pyjama, au moment où elle s'apprêtait à descendre sur la plage
Synonyms
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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