sténographie
\ste.nɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“sténographie” is uncommon French (frequency #82,496 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,496
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art d’écrire par signes conventionnels, d’une manière aussi rapide que la parole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stenographie · sténographie · French
sténographie · rank #82,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,496
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH striés
Nearest frequency peer: striés (-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 « sténographie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stratigraph…
stratigraphiques
17,508 corpus weight
- streptocoque
streptocoque
17,507 corpus weight
- striés
striés
17,506 corpus weight
- sténographie
sténographie
17,505 corpus weight
- suppositoir…
suppositoires
17,503 corpus weight
- supranation…
supranational
17,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sténographie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sténographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ste.nɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sténographie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sténographie is uncommon French at frequency #82,496 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ste.nɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sténographie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sténographie, spelled S-T-É-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art d’écrire par signes conventionnels, d’une manière aussi rapide que la parole.
- 2Document produit grâce à cette technique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sténographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La connaissance que je possédais de l’écriture de Lambert me permit, à l’aide du temps, de déchiffrer les hiéroglyphes de cette sténographie créée par l’impatience et par la frénésie de la passion.
La sténographie, ne représentant que les sons et le silence qui les sépare, n’admet ni orthographe ni ponctuation dans son écriture; mais le sténographe rétablit l’une et l’autre dans ses transcriptions.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).