SNP
\ɛs.ɛn.pe\
The verdict
“SNP” is uncommon French (frequency #54,907 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,907
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dénomination ancienne du parathion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-snp · SNP · French
SNP · rank #54,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,907
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slides
Nearest frequency peer: slides (-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 « SNP »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sima
sima
45,097 corpus weight
- Sissy
Sissy
45,096 corpus weight
- slides
slides
45,095 corpus weight
- SNP
SNP
45,094 corpus weight
- Snuipp
Snuipp
45,093 corpus weight
- socialo
socialo
45,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « SNP » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SNP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ɛn.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « SNP » en français
Rare enough to double-check
SNP is uncommon French at frequency #54,907 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.ɛn.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dénomination ancienne du parathion.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for SNP in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is SNP, spelled S-N-P.
Definition
- 1Dénomination ancienne du parathion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how SNP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par contre, le SNP est loin d’être aussi efficace. On pourra donc traiter soit en pulvérisation, avec une émulsion de DDT dans l’huile minérale, à la dose de 1 %, soit en poudrage avec une poudre de DDT à 5 % seulement […]
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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