squid
The verdict
“squid” is uncommon French (frequency #95,354 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,354
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif électronique servant de détecteur du champ magnétique et de ses variations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-squid · squid · French
squid · rank #95,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,354
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sprimont
Nearest frequency peer: Sprimont (-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 « squid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spicy
spicy
4,650 corpus weight
- spotless
spotless
4,649 corpus weight
- Sprimont
Sprimont
4,648 corpus weight
- squid
squid
4,647 corpus weight
- stalagmites
stalagmites
4,646 corpus weight
- Stelvio
Stelvio
4,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « squid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | squid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « squid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
squid is uncommon French at frequency #95,354 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dispositif électronique servant de détecteur du champ magnétique et de ses variations.".
Zero misspellings are on record for squid in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 squid, spelled S-Q-U-I-D.
Definition
- 1Dispositif électronique servant de détecteur du champ magnétique et de ses variations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how squid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les squids sont les détecteurs de champ magnétique les plus sensibles dont on dispose aujourd’hui
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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