spit
\spit\
The verdict
“spit” is uncommon French (frequency #76,142 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,142
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piton à expansion. Cheville auto-foreuse utilisée pour les ancrages sur le rocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spit · spit · French
spit · rank #76,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,142
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spear
Nearest frequency peer: spear (-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 « spit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sonneurs
sonneurs
23,862 corpus weight
- soustrayant
soustrayant
23,861 corpus weight
- spear
spear
23,860 corpus weight
- spit
spit
23,859 corpus weight
- Sprache
Sprache
23,858 corpus weight
- squadron
squadron
23,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spit\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spit is uncommon French at frequency #76,142 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Piton à expansion. Cheville auto-foreuse utilisée pour les ancrages sur le rocher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for spit, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is spit, spelled S-P-I-T.
Definition
- 1Piton à expansion. Cheville auto-foreuse utilisée pour les ancrages sur le rocher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est l'arme absolue : quand l'alpiniste se trouve dans une zone complètement lisse, il met un spit.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).