squaw
\skwo\
The verdict
“squaw” is uncommon French (frequency #79,763 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,763
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme indienne d’Amérique du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-squaw · squaw · French
squaw · rank #79,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,763
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sprinters
Nearest frequency peer: sprinters (-2 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 « squaw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soustraits
soustraits
20,242 corpus weight
- spooky
spooky
20,241 corpus weight
- sprinters
sprinters
20,240 corpus weight
- squaw
squaw
20,238 corpus weight
- stoïcien
stoïcien
20,236 corpus weight
- straits
straits
20,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « squaw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | squaw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skwo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « squaw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
squaw is uncommon French at frequency #79,763 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skwo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme indienne d’Amérique du Nord.".
squaw has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is squaw, spelled S-Q-U-A-W.
Definition
- 1Femme indienne d’Amérique du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how squaw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces chefs, au nombre d’une douzaine, n’avaient point amené leurs femmes, malheureuses « squaws » qui ne s’élèvent guère au-dessus de la condition d’esclaves.
Si jolie, si délicate – on aurait dit qu’elle n’appartenait pas à la même espèce que les squaws apaches, lourdes, grosses, trapues, qui ne savaient s’exprimer qu’en vociférant, rusées comme des singes, cruelles comme des panthères.
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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