steal
\ˈstiːl\
The verdict
“steal” is uncommon French (frequency #76,149 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,149
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steal · steal · French
steal · rank #76,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,149
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH streetwear
Nearest frequency peer: streetwear (+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 « steal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- squatters
squatters
23,855 corpus weight
- starship
starship
23,854 corpus weight
- steal
steal
23,852 corpus weight
- streetwear
streetwear
23,851 corpus weight
- structurant…
structurantes
23,850 corpus weight
- strychnine
strychnine
23,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « steal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈstiːl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « steal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
steal is uncommon French at frequency #76,149 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈstiːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for steal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is steal, spelled S-T-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1Voler.
- 2Dérober.
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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