stad
\ʃtaːt\
The verdict
“stad” is uncommon French (frequency #88,120 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,120
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Silencieux, calme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stad · stad · French
stad · rank #88,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,120
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH staliniennes
Nearest frequency peer: staliniennes (+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 « stad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souviendrons
souviendrons
11,886 corpus weight
- speedrun
speedrun
11,883 corpus weight
- stad
stad
11,881 corpus weight
- staliniennes
staliniennes
11,880 corpus weight
- Stil
Stil
11,878 corpus weight
- striées
striées
11,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃtaːt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stad is uncommon French at frequency #88,120 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃtaːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Silencieux, calme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stad, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stad, spelled S-T-A-D.
Definition
- 1Silencieux, calme.
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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