stealth

adj

The verdict

“stealth” is uncommon French (frequency #81,599 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,599
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une personne trans ayant transitionné et dont la transitude n'est pas publique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stealth · stealth · French

stealth · rank #81,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,599
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH standaard

Nearest frequency peer: standaard (-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 « stealth »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stealth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for stealth
PropertyValue
Headwordstealth
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,599
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « stealth » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.stealthtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « standaard » (#81,598), « stratifiés » (#81,600), « subliminale » (#81,601). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stealth » est au #81,599. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

stealth is uncommon French at frequency #81,599 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie une personne trans ayant transitionné et dont la transitude n'est pas publique.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stealth, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is stealth, spelled S-T-E-A-L-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualifie une personne trans ayant transitionné et dont la transitude n'est pas publique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how stealth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On dit d’une personne trans qui a un cispassing et qui ne révèle pas qu’elle est trans qu’elle est stealth. Il s’agit souvent du seul moyen pour une personne trans de vivre une vie un tant soit peu tranquille et moins exposée aux violences.
  2. Deuxièmement, je suis pré-T et je passe suffisamment pour être stealth avec mon coloc cis, mais je suis très chanceux car je suis naturellement masculin.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stealth"?
"stealth" is spelled S-T-E-A-L-T-H.
What does "stealth" mean?
As an adjective, "stealth" means: Qualifie une personne trans ayant transitionné et dont la transitude n'est pas publique.
What language does "stealth" come from?
"stealth" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stealth", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list