Spokane
\spo.kan\
The verdict
“Spokane” is uncommon French (frequency #84,332 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,332
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - membre du peuple amérindien de langue salish du Nord-Est de l’État américain de Washington
Corpus desk
Index FR-spokane · Spokane · French
Spokane · rank #84,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,332
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sparring
Nearest frequency peer: sparring (-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 « Spokane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soumettons
soumettons
15,672 corpus weight
- sovereign
sovereign
15,671 corpus weight
- sparring
sparring
15,670 corpus weight
- Spokane
Spokane
15,669 corpus weight
- sprites
sprites
15,668 corpus weight
- spéléologue
spéléologue
15,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Spokane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spokane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spo.kan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Spokane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Spokane is uncommon French at frequency #84,332 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spo.kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "membre du peuple amérindien de langue salish du Nord-Est de l’État américain de Washington".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Spokane in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Spokane, spelled S-P-O-K-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1membre du peuple amérindien de langue salish du Nord-Est de l’État américain de Washington
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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