sticky
\ˈstɪ.ki\
The verdict
“sticky” is uncommon French (frequency #68,668 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,668
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Collant, visqueux, gluant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sticky · sticky · French
sticky · rank #68,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,668
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Steinbeck
Nearest frequency peer: Steinbeck (-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 « sticky »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Stadt
Stadt
31,336 corpus weight
- statistical
statistical
31,335 corpus weight
- Steinbeck
Steinbeck
31,334 corpus weight
- sticky
sticky
31,333 corpus weight
- stoppa
stoppa
31,332 corpus weight
- strapontin
strapontin
31,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sticky » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sticky |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈstɪ.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sticky » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sticky is uncommon French at frequency #68,668 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈstɪ.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sticky in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sticky, spelled S-T-I-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Collant, visqueux, gluant.
- 2Difficile à régler ou gérer, délicat, problématique.
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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