STIC
\stik\
The verdict
“STIC” is uncommon French (frequency #84,337 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,337
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien fichier de police informatisé du ministère de l’Intérieur regroupant les informations concernant les auteurs d’infractions interpellés par les services de police.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stic · STIC · French
STIC · rank #84,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,337
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stoffel
Nearest frequency peer: Stoffel (+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 « STIC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sprites
sprites
15,668 corpus weight
- spéléologue
spéléologue
15,667 corpus weight
- STIC
STIC
15,664 corpus weight
- Stoffel
Stoffel
15,663 corpus weight
- subduction
subduction
15,661 corpus weight
- successful
successful
15,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « STIC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | STIC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « STIC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
STIC is uncommon French at frequency #84,337 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien fichier de police informatisé du ministère de l’Intérieur regroupant les informations concernant les auteurs d’infractions interpellés par les services de police.".
STIC doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 STIC, spelled S-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Ancien fichier de police informatisé du ministère de l’Intérieur regroupant les informations concernant les auteurs d’infractions interpellés par les services de police.
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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