stathouder
\sta.tu.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“stathouder” is uncommon French (frequency #85,291 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,291
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef de l’ancienne république des Provinces-Unies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stathouder · stathouder · French
stathouder · rank #85,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,291
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sss
Nearest frequency peer: sss (-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 « stathouder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spinetta
spinetta
14,713 corpus weight
- spécialisant
spécialisant
14,712 corpus weight
- sss
sss
14,711 corpus weight
- stathouder
stathouder
14,710 corpus weight
- stridents
stridents
14,709 corpus weight
- stromboli
stromboli
14,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stathouder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stathouder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.tu.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stathouder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stathouder is uncommon French at frequency #85,291 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sta.tu.dɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chef de l’ancienne république des Provinces-Unies.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stathouder in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 stathouder, spelled S-T-A-T-H-O-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chef de l’ancienne république des Provinces-Unies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stathouder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Georges Cuvier trouve ainsi dans la collection scientifique du stathouder de Hollande des crânes d’éléphants de Ceylan et du Cap, qui lui permettent de confirmer qu’il y a deux espèces distinctes d’éléphants vivants.
un stathouder qui se fera roi ;
This word in other languages
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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