steps
\stɛps\
The verdict
“steps” is uncommon French (frequency #57,614 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,614
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique sportive consistant à sautiller en montant ou descendant un escalier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steps · steps · French
steps · rank #57,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,614
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Starck
Nearest frequency peer: Starck (-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 « steps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spéléologie
spéléologie
42,390 corpus weight
- staliniens
staliniens
42,389 corpus weight
- Starck
Starck
42,388 corpus weight
- steps
steps
42,387 corpus weight
- sterne
sterne
42,386 corpus weight
- sticks
sticks
42,385 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « steps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɛps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « steps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
steps is uncommon French at frequency #57,614 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stɛps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pratique sportive consistant à sautiller en montant ou descendant un escalier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for steps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is steps, spelled S-T-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1Pratique sportive consistant à sautiller en montant ou descendant un escalier.
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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