splinter
\ˈsplɪn.tə\
The verdict
“splinter” is uncommon French (frequency #72,756 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,756
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écharde, éclat, esquille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-splinter · splinter · French
splinter · rank #72,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,756
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spitfire
Nearest frequency peer: Spitfire (-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 « splinter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spirite
spirite
27,247 corpus weight
- Spitfire
Spitfire
27,246 corpus weight
- splinter
splinter
27,245 corpus weight
- staal
staal
27,244 corpus weight
- stalle
stalle
27,243 corpus weight
- Stamm
Stamm
27,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « splinter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | splinter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsplɪn.tə\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « splinter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
splinter is uncommon French at frequency #72,756 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsplɪn.tə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écharde, éclat, esquille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for splinter, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is splinter, spelled S-P-L-I-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Écharde, éclat, esquille.
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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