stipe
\stip\
The verdict
“stipe” is uncommon French (frequency #72,761 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,761
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tige ligneuse des plantes monocotylédones arborescentes, des palmiers, des grandes fougères, etc. souvent nommé faux-tronc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stipe · stipe · French
stipe · rank #72,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,761
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stipulées
Nearest frequency peer: stipulées (+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 « stipe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stalle
stalle
27,243 corpus weight
- Stamm
Stamm
27,242 corpus weight
- stipe
stipe
27,240 corpus weight
- stipulées
stipulées
27,239 corpus weight
- stormy
stormy
27,238 corpus weight
- strasser
strasser
27,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stipe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stipe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stip\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stipe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stipe is uncommon French at frequency #72,761 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for stipe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stipe, spelled S-T-I-P-E.
Definition
- 1Tige ligneuse des plantes monocotylédones arborescentes, des palmiers, des grandes fougères, etc. souvent nommé faux-tronc.
- 2Nom scientifique du pied des champignons basidiomycètes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stipe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans de nombreux pays, une pratique judicieuse consiste à glisser une pierre entre le rejet et la base du stipe afin de l’obliger à se développer en s’éloignant du pied mère.
Leurs chapeaux compacts ont la surface inférieure lisse (non lamellée) et un stipe fin et vigoureux.
Synonyms
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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