sorbets
\sɔʁ.bɛ\
The verdict
“sorbets” is uncommon French (frequency #67,890 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,890
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sorbet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sorbets · sorbets · French
sorbets · rank #67,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,890
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH solennels
Nearest frequency peer: solennels (-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 « sorbets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sociopoliti…
sociopolitique
32,114 corpus weight
- Solal
Solal
32,113 corpus weight
- solennels
solennels
32,112 corpus weight
- sorbets
sorbets
32,111 corpus weight
- sortions
sortions
32,110 corpus weight
- Soulié
Soulié
32,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sorbets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sorbets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sorbets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sorbets is uncommon French at frequency #67,890 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔʁ.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sorbet.".
sorbets doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sorbets, spelled S-O-R-B-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sorbet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sorbets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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