start-up
\staʁ.tœp\
The verdict
“start-up” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune entreprise innovante et dynamique, à croissance rapide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-start-up · start-up · French
start-up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | start-up |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \staʁ.tœp\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « start-up » en français
Rare enough to double-check
start-up is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \staʁ.tœp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeune entreprise innovante et dynamique, à croissance rapide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for start-up in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is start-up, spelled S-T-A-R-T---U-P.
Definition
- 1Jeune entreprise innovante et dynamique, à croissance rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how start-up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Décembre 1891. […]. Et, dans cette France de la IIIᵉ République, l’avenir de l’économie s’écrit en grande partie dans les Ardennes. Les start-ups de l’époque se dénichent dans la sidérurgie ou la forge. Les entrepreneurs les plus en vue se nomment Deville ou Wendel.
Leader mondial de la sécurité informatique, figurant parmi les pionniers des avions sans pilote, de l’imagerie médicale et de l’irrigation au goutte-à-goutte, Israël est un pays où les starts-up et l’innovation fleurissent.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.