stalk
\stɔːk\
The verdict
“stalk” is uncommon French (frequency #92,216 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,216
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de stalken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stalk · stalk · French
stalk · rank #92,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,216
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stairway
Nearest frequency peer: stairway (-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 « stalk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- squatteur
squatteur
7,788 corpus weight
- staffs
staffs
7,787 corpus weight
- stairway
stairway
7,786 corpus weight
- stalk
stalk
7,785 corpus weight
- steady
steady
7,782 corpus weight
- Stefanie
Stefanie
7,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stalk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stalk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \stɔːk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stalk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stalk is uncommon French at frequency #92,216 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \stɔːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de stalken.".
No misspelling variants are generated for stalk in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is stalk, spelled S-T-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de stalken.
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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