stem
\stɛm\
The verdict
“stem” is an uncommon French word, ranked #59,657 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,657
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Technique de virage à ski commençant comme un chasse-neige, mais où le ski intérieur est rabattu parallèlement à l'autre dès la ligne de pente passée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stem” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for stem is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #59,657 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Technique de virage à ski commençant comme un chasse-neige, mais où le ski intérieur est rabattu parallèlement à l'autre dès la ligne de pente passée.".
stem doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is stem, spelled S-T-E-M.
Definition
- 1Technique de virage à ski commençant comme un chasse-neige, mais où le ski intérieur est rabattu parallèlement à l'autre dès la ligne de pente passée.
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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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Using “stem”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-E-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stɛm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.