southwest
\saʊθˈwɛst\
The verdict
“southwest” is uncommon French (frequency #59,650 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,650
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sud-ouest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-southwest · southwest · French
southwest · rank #59,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souscrivent
Nearest frequency peer: souscrivent (-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 « southwest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sotto
sotto
40,354 corpus weight
- soupçonnant
soupçonnant
40,353 corpus weight
- souscrivent
souscrivent
40,352 corpus weight
- southwest
southwest
40,351 corpus weight
- spahis
spahis
40,350 corpus weight
- speakers
speakers
40,349 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « southwest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | southwest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʊθˈwɛst\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « southwest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
southwest is uncommon French at frequency #59,650 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʊθˈwɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sud-ouest.".
Zero misspellings are on record for southwest in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is southwest, spelled S-O-U-T-H-W-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Sud-ouest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).