sneaker
\sni.kœʁ\
The verdict
“sneaker” is uncommon French (frequency #92,206 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,206
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Basket, tennis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sneaker · sneaker · French
sneaker · rank #92,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,206
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH snatch
Nearest frequency peer: snatch (-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 « sneaker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- slang
slang
7,800 corpus weight
- slay
slay
7,799 corpus weight
- snatch
snatch
7,796 corpus weight
- sneaker
sneaker
7,795 corpus weight
- souciaient
souciaient
7,792 corpus weight
- soustraite
soustraite
7,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sneaker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sneaker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sni.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sneaker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sneaker is uncommon French at frequency #92,206 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sni.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Basket, tennis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sneaker in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sneaker, spelled S-N-E-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Basket, tennis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sneaker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a d’abord été laminée par la mode des sneakers qui a détourné sa clientèle vers les boutiques de baskets et les sites de vente en ligne de chaussures de sport.
C’étaient des filles assez jeunes, plutôt laides. Habillées d’un gilet qui boudinait leur poitrine, et d’une mini-jupe en synthétique, certaines avaient leurs jambes lacées dans des sortes de spartiates à hauts talons, d’autres étaient simplement chaussées de sneakers blancs.
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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