socket
\sɔ.kɛt\
The verdict
“socket” is uncommon French (frequency #55,602 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,602
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extrémité logicielle d’un canal de communication, identifiée par une adresse, permettant l’échange de données entre processus, localement (ex. socket Unix) ou via le réseau (ex. TCP/UDP).
Corpus desk
Index FR-socket · socket · French
socket · rank #55,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,602
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SNK
Nearest frequency peer: SNK (-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 « socket »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- snapdragon
snapdragon
44,401 corpus weight
- SNK
SNK
44,400 corpus weight
- socket
socket
44,399 corpus weight
- soigneur
soigneur
44,398 corpus weight
- songeant
songeant
44,397 corpus weight
- souffla
souffla
44,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « socket » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | socket |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « socket » en français
Rare enough to double-check
socket is uncommon French at frequency #55,602 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for socket, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is socket, spelled S-O-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Extrémité logicielle d’un canal de communication, identifiée par une adresse, permettant l’échange de données entre processus, localement (ex. socket Unix) ou via le réseau (ex. TCP/UDP).
- 2En connectique, réceptacle, généralement de processeurs sur les cartes mères.
- 3Prise de courant femelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how socket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une socket est une extrémité d’un canal de communication bidirectionnelle entre deux processus.
Les sockets sont apparues dans 4.2BSD, en 1983. Elles sont à présent disponibles sur tous les Unix courants, et il en existe des variantes sur les autres principaux systèmes d’exploitation.
Synonyms
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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