Spitzberg
\spits.bɛʁɡ\
The verdict
“Spitzberg” is uncommon French (frequency #62,645 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,645
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus grande île de l’archipel du Svalbard, dans l’océan Arctique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spitzberg · Spitzberg · French
Spitzberg · rank #62,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,645
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spectrales
Nearest frequency peer: spectrales (-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 « Spitzberg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souverainem…
souverainement
37,359 corpus weight
- specific
specific
37,358 corpus weight
- spectrales
spectrales
37,357 corpus weight
- Spitzberg
Spitzberg
37,356 corpus weight
- squares
squares
37,355 corpus weight
- stoker
stoker
37,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Spitzberg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spitzberg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \spits.bɛʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Spitzberg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Spitzberg is uncommon French at frequency #62,645 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \spits.bɛʁɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Spitzberg in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Spitzberg, spelled S-P-I-T-Z-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1Plus grande île de l’archipel du Svalbard, dans l’océan Arctique.
- 2Svalbard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Spitzberg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les glaciers du Spitzberg, bien que très importants, ne débitent pas d’icebergs ; leur conformation ainsi que les fonds réduits de la mer à leur base, ne permettent pas le vêlage d’ice-blocs.
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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