stal

\stal\

/\stal\/ noun

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The verdict

“stal” is uncommon French (frequency #78,876 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,876
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staliniste.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stal · stal · French

stal · rank #78,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,876
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spéculé

Nearest frequency peer: spéculé (-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 « stal »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for stal
PropertyValue
Headwordstal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stal\
Letters4
Frequency rank#78,876
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « stal » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).staltombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « spéculé » (#78,875), « Stanislav » (#78,877), « sponsorisées » (#78,874). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stal » est au #78,876. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

stal is uncommon French at frequency #78,876 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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 stal, spelled S-T-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Staliniste.
  2. 2
    Partisan d'extrême gauche par opposition à un partisan de gauche plus modérée, dans le contexte de la gauche politique française de la deuxième moitié du XXᵉ siècle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how stal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un cadre régional des Écologistes, solidaire de la direction, est catastrophé par la stratégie pour laquelle elle a opté en menaçant de suspendre les signataires. « On va passer collectivement pour des stal’, et ces suspensions vont être levées car elles ne s’appuient sur rien sur le fond », anticipe-t-il.
  2. « se faire un stal »

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stal"?
"stal" is spelled S-T-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \stal\.
What does "stal" mean?
As a noun, "stal" means: Staliniste.
How do you pronounce "stal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stal" is \stal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stal" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sian#78,855seti#78,849seri#78,848roze#78,818

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list