softball
\sɔft.bol\
The verdict
“softball” is uncommon French (frequency #51,138 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,138
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport similaire au baseball, mais qui se joue avec une balle plus grosse et moins dure, et souvent joué par des femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-softball · softball · French
softball · rank #51,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,138
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SNSM
Nearest frequency peer: SNSM (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “softball”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- skinhead
skinhead
48,866 corpus weight
- SNSM
SNSM
48,864 corpus weight
- softball
softball
48,863 corpus weight
- sonnant
sonnant
48,862 corpus weight
- sonnera
sonnera
48,861 corpus weight
- Sopalin
Sopalin
48,860 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “softball” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | softball |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔft.bol\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “softball” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
softball is uncommon French at frequency #51,138 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔft.bol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport similaire au baseball, mais qui se joue avec une balle plus grosse et moins dure, et souvent joué par des femmes.".
softball doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is softball, spelled S-O-F-T-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Sport similaire au baseball, mais qui se joue avec une balle plus grosse et moins dure, et souvent joué par des femmes.
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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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