spur
\spyʁ\
The verdict
“spur” is uncommon French (frequency #82,488 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,488
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite branche fine et courte d'arbre fruitier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spur · spur · French
spur · rank #82,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,488
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stambouli
Nearest frequency peer: Stambouli (+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 « spur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spar
spar
17,517 corpus weight
- spare
spare
17,516 corpus weight
- spur
spur
17,513 corpus weight
- Stambouli
Stambouli
17,512 corpus weight
- Stenay
Stenay
17,510 corpus weight
- Stijn
Stijn
17,509 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spyʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spur is uncommon French at frequency #82,488 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite branche fine et courte d'arbre fruitier.".
spur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is spur, spelled S-P-U-R.
Definition
- 1Petite branche fine et courte d'arbre fruitier.
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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