spyware
\spaj.wɛʁ\
The verdict
“spyware” is uncommon French (frequency #91,189 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,189
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malware installé sur un ordinateur à l’insu de son utilisataire chargé de collecter et de communiquer à des tiers des informations diverses (environnement, logiciels employés, sites préférés, histo...
Corpus desk
Index FR-spyware · spyware · French
spyware · rank #91,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,189
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spritz
Nearest frequency peer: Spritz (-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 « spyware »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sollicitons
sollicitons
8,817 corpus weight
- Spritz
Spritz
8,813 corpus weight
- spyware
spyware
8,812 corpus weight
- stigmatisent
stigmatisent
8,809 corpus weight
- stipulée
stipulée
8,808 corpus weight
- stockant
stockant
8,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spyware » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spyware |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spaj.wɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spyware » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spyware is uncommon French at frequency #91,189 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spaj.wɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malware installé sur un ordinateur à l’insu de son utilisataire chargé de collecter et de communiquer à des tiers des informations diverses (environnement, logiciels employés, sites préférés, histo...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for spyware in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 spyware, spelled S-P-Y-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Malware installé sur un ordinateur à l’insu de son utilisataire chargé de collecter et de communiquer à des tiers des informations diverses (environnement, logiciels employés, sites préférés, historique de navigation, etc.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spyware appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Presque totalement ignorés par la majorité des antivirus, les spywares constituent une nouvelle menace pour l'utilisateur. Véritables « plaies du Web », ces logiciels espions sont de plus en plus gênants et difficiles à éviter, même pour l'utilisateur averti.
Synonyms
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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