Stains
\stɛ̃\
The verdict
“Stains” is uncommon French (frequency #54,277 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stains · Stains · French
Stains · rank #54,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sporadiquement
Nearest frequency peer: sporadiquement (-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 « Stains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spasme
spasme
45,726 corpus weight
- sporadiquem…
sporadiquement
45,725 corpus weight
- Stains
Stains
45,724 corpus weight
- Stefani
Stefani
45,723 corpus weight
- stipulation
stipulation
45,722 corpus weight
- stipulent
stipulent
45,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Stains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \stɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Stains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Stains is uncommon French at frequency #54,277 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \stɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Stains, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Stains, spelled S-T-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La banlieue, ça use. Les profs du lycée Maurice-Utrillo, à Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis), n’en peuvent plus. Les jeunes non plus. Et les parents pareils.
À Stains, en Seine-Saint-Denis, une femme a été retrouvée, lundi soir, nue et brûlée à 40 %, a-t-on appris auprès du parquet de Bobigny.
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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