steamer
\sti.mœʁ\
The verdict
“steamer” is uncommon French (frequency #75,254 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,254
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bateau à vapeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steamer · steamer · French
steamer · rank #75,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,254
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spéléologues
Nearest frequency peer: spéléologues (-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 « steamer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spell
spell
24,751 corpus weight
- Spinosa
Spinosa
24,750 corpus weight
- spoken
spoken
24,749 corpus weight
- spéléologues
spéléologues
24,748 corpus weight
- steamer
steamer
24,747 corpus weight
- Steinmetz
Steinmetz
24,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « steamer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steamer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sti.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « steamer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
steamer is uncommon French at frequency #75,254 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sti.mœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bateau à vapeur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for steamer, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is steamer, spelled S-T-E-A-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bateau à vapeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how steamer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ni le docteur Peney, chef du service médical égyptien, qui sur un petit steamer atteignit un degré au-dessous de Gondokoro, et revint mourir d'épuisement à Karthoum, —[…]— ne purent franchir l'infranchissable limite.
Et, tandis que le transport des fourrures exige un temps considérable et des frais énormes pour être effectué à travers les territoires indiens, en quelques jours des steamers pourront aller du nouveau fort à l'océan Pacifique.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).