stile
The verdict
“stile” is uncommon French (frequency #87,181 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,181
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancienne orthographe de style.
| 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) |
Where “stile” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stile is uncommon French at frequency #87,181 among 394,209 “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.
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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Using “stile”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.