stem
\stɛm\
The verdict
“stem” is uncommon French (frequency #59,657 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,657
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stem · stem · French
stem · rank #59,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Steffen
Nearest frequency peer: Steffen (-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 « stem »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- speakers
speakers
40,349 corpus weight
- squattent
squattent
40,346 corpus weight
- Steffen
Steffen
40,345 corpus weight
- stem
stem
40,344 corpus weight
- Stephenson
Stephenson
40,343 corpus weight
- stoïciens
stoïciens
40,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stem » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « stem » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stem is uncommon French at frequency #59,657 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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