stile
The verdict
“stile” is uncommon French (frequency #87,181 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,181
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne orthographe de style.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stile · stile · French
stile · rank #87,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,181
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Steins
Nearest frequency peer: Steins (-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 « stile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soutiendrai…
soutiendraient
12,823 corpus weight
- Spolète
Spolète
12,822 corpus weight
- Steins
Steins
12,821 corpus weight
- stile
stile
12,820 corpus weight
- storico
storico
12,819 corpus weight
- streak
streak
12,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stile is uncommon French at frequency #87,181 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne orthographe de style.".
stile doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is stile, spelled S-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne orthographe de style.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai donc jugé à propos de l’y mettre , après l’avoir seulement un peu retouchée pour le stile ; & je me contenterai de faire ici quelques Remarques sur mon propre travail.
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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