spawn
\spɔːn\
The verdict
“spawn” is uncommon French (frequency #52,998 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,998
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œufs de poisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spawn · spawn · French
spawn · rank #52,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,998
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spartan
Nearest frequency peer: spartan (-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 « spawn »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soupçonneux
soupçonneux
47,006 corpus weight
- soutiendrai
soutiendrai
47,005 corpus weight
- spartan
spartan
47,004 corpus weight
- spawn
spawn
47,003 corpus weight
- spectroscop…
spectroscopie
47,002 corpus weight
- Spengler
Spengler
47,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spawn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spawn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔːn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spawn » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spawn is uncommon French at frequency #52,998 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɔːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
spawn doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 spawn, spelled S-P-A-W-N.
Definition
- 1Œufs de poisson.
- 2Mycélium.
- 3Progéniture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spawn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
spawn of the devil
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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