stetson
\stɛt.sɔn\
The verdict
“stetson” is uncommon French (frequency #77,957 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,957
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chapeau de feutre à large bord, porté par les cow-boys après la deuxième moitié du XIXᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stetson · stetson · French
stetson · rank #77,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,957
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stigmatisée
Nearest frequency peer: stigmatisée (+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 « stetson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stent
stent
22,046 corpus weight
- stetson
stetson
22,044 corpus weight
- stigmatisée
stigmatisée
22,043 corpus weight
- stéroïde
stéroïde
22,042 corpus weight
- suaves
suaves
22,041 corpus weight
- subsistaient
subsistaient
22,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stetson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stetson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɛt.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stetson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stetson is uncommon French at frequency #77,957 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stɛt.sɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chapeau de feutre à large bord, porté par les cow-boys après la deuxième moitié du XIXᵉ siècle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for stetson in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is stetson, spelled S-T-E-T-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Chapeau de feutre à large bord, porté par les cow-boys après la deuxième moitié du XIXᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stetson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Buffalo Bill a popularisé le stetson dans le monde entier.
Comme le stetson est plutôt large, il équilibrera les visages allongés et les visages ronds.
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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