snober
\snɔ.be\
The verdict
“snober” is uncommon French (frequency #81,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,585
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter quelqu’un avec mépris, mépriser, dédaigner
Corpus desk
Index FR-snober · snober · French
snober · rank #81,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,585
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SNLE
Nearest frequency peer: SNLE (-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 « snober »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- smicard
smicard
18,418 corpus weight
- SNLE
SNLE
18,417 corpus weight
- snober
snober
18,416 corpus weight
- società
società
18,415 corpus weight
- Sohn
Sohn
18,414 corpus weight
- sommant
sommant
18,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « snober » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snober |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \snɔ.be\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « snober » en français
Rare enough to double-check
snober is uncommon French at frequency #81,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \snɔ.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for snober in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is snober, spelled S-N-O-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Traiter quelqu’un avec mépris, mépriser, dédaigner
- 2Ignorer, refuser une faveur, un honneur ou une obligation sociale
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snober appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’a bien vue à cette soirée mais il m’a snobée.
La fin des restrictions a conduit ensuite les gens des villes à prendre de la distance, à snober les paysans.
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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