stilton
\stil.tɔn\
The verdict
“stilton” is uncommon French (frequency #94,296 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,296
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fromage de Grande-Bretagne, dont il existe deux sortes : le stilton bleu (le plus connu) et le stilton blanc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stilton · stilton · French
stilton · rank #94,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,296
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stephano
Nearest frequency peer: Stephano (-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 « stilton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sourcilleux
sourcilleux
5,709 corpus weight
- spéculum
spéculum
5,708 corpus weight
- Stephano
Stephano
5,706 corpus weight
- stilton
stilton
5,705 corpus weight
- styrène
styrène
5,703 corpus weight
- stérilisées
stérilisées
5,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stilton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stilton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stil.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stilton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stilton is uncommon French at frequency #94,296 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stil.tɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fromage de Grande-Bretagne, dont il existe deux sortes : le stilton bleu (le plus connu) et le stilton blanc.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stilton, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stilton, spelled S-T-I-L-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fromage de Grande-Bretagne, dont il existe deux sortes : le stilton bleu (le plus connu) et le stilton blanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stilton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De sa grande cuisine désordonnée, tandis qu’elle préparait un cottage pie ou une salade de poires au Stilton, Arabella chantait divinement faux.
This word in other languages
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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