stiletto
\sti.lɛ.to\
The verdict
“stiletto” is uncommon French (frequency #89,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escarpin dont le talon fin mesure plus de 10 cm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stiletto · stiletto · French
stiletto · rank #89,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,203
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH statutairement
Nearest frequency peer: statutairement (-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 « stiletto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Standish
Standish
10,802 corpus weight
- stap
stap
10,801 corpus weight
- statutairem…
statutairement
10,799 corpus weight
- stiletto
stiletto
10,798 corpus weight
- stimulées
stimulées
10,796 corpus weight
- stoppées
stoppées
10,795 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stiletto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stiletto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sti.lɛ.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stiletto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stiletto is uncommon French at frequency #89,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sti.lɛ.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Escarpin dont le talon fin mesure plus de 10 cm.".
stiletto has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stiletto, spelled S-T-I-L-E-T-T-O.
Definition
- 1Escarpin dont le talon fin mesure plus de 10 cm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stiletto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle portait une robe en satin rouge qui flattait sa silhouette et des escarpins noirs aux talons stiletto. — (Wendy Delorme, Le corps est une chimère, 2018, Au Diable Vauvert, page 72.)
Je porterai ma nouvelle robe avec mes stilettos pour paraître plus grande.
Synonyms
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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