Stavelot
\sta.vlo\
The verdict
“Stavelot” is uncommon French (frequency #63,376 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,376
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stavelot · Stavelot · French
Stavelot · rank #63,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,376
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH steack
Nearest frequency peer: steack (+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 « Stavelot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souillées
souillées
36,629 corpus weight
- soulignera
soulignera
36,628 corpus weight
- spectrométr…
spectrométrie
36,627 corpus weight
- Stavelot
Stavelot
36,625 corpus weight
- steack
steack
36,624 corpus weight
- stoppés
stoppés
36,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Stavelot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stavelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sta.vlo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Stavelot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Stavelot is uncommon French at frequency #63,376 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sta.vlo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Stavelot, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Stavelot, spelled S-T-A-V-E-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
- 2Abbaye qui florissait dans cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stavelot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir passé par Brühl, Cologne, Stolberg et Malmédy, il entre le 16 août 1914 en Belgique. Le lendemain il est à Francorchamps, à sept kilomètres de Stavelot.
Les religieux de Stavelot, seigneurs tréfonciers de Chooz et de ses appendices, lèvent les amendes à Chooz, dont ils donnent le tiers à Gérard de Jauche, seigneur de Hierges, qui, depuis dix-huit ans, s'est emparé de différents revenus.
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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