snooker
\snu.kœʁ\
The verdict
“snooker” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante du billard avec 22 billes de sept couleurs différentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-snooker · snooker · French
snooker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snooker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \snu.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
snooker is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \snu.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante du billard avec 22 billes de sept couleurs différentes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for snooker in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is snooker, spelled S-N-O-O-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Variante du billard avec 22 billes de sept couleurs différentes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how snooker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jour où Irina accepte de dîner seule avec Ramsey Acton, célèbre joueur de snooker, elle ne se doute pas que sa vie va basculer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.