snipes
\snajp\
The verdict
“snipes” is uncommon French (frequency #87,164 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,164
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe sniper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-snipes · snipes · French
snipes · rank #87,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,164
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sixteen
Nearest frequency peer: sixteen (-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 « snipes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- simu
simu
12,840 corpus weight
- sixteen
sixteen
12,838 corpus weight
- snipes
snipes
12,837 corpus weight
- SNT
SNT
12,836 corpus weight
- sobriquets
sobriquets
12,834 corpus weight
- socks
socks
12,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « snipes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snipes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \snajp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « snipes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
snipes is uncommon French at frequency #87,164 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \snajp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for snipes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is snipes, spelled S-N-I-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe sniper.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe sniper.
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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