stillstand
\ˈʃtɪlˌʃtant\
The verdict
“stillstand” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif dans une proposition subordonnée de stillstehen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stillstand · stillstand · French
stillstand · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stillstand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈʃtɪlˌʃtant\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
stillstand is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈʃtɪlˌʃtant\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stillstand, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stillstand, spelled S-T-I-L-L-S-T-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif dans une proposition subordonnée de stillstehen.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif dans une proposition subordonnée de stillstehen.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.