steed
\stiːd\
The verdict
“steed” is uncommon French (frequency #64,108 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,108
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coursier (cheval masculin)
Corpus desk
Index FR-steed · steed · French
steed · rank #64,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,108
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stagné
Nearest frequency peer: stagné (-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 « steed »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Stab
Stab
35,895 corpus weight
- stagné
stagné
35,894 corpus weight
- steed
steed
35,893 corpus weight
- stig
stig
35,892 corpus weight
- strap
strap
35,891 corpus weight
- stratigraph…
stratigraphique
35,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « steed » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stiːd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « steed » en français
Rare enough to double-check
steed is uncommon French at frequency #64,108 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stiːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for steed, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 steed, spelled S-T-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1Coursier (cheval masculin)
- 2Destrier.
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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