stolz
\ʃtɔlt͡s\
The verdict
“stolz” is uncommon French (frequency #90,220 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,220
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fier, convaincu de soi-même, plein de fierté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stolz · stolz · French
stolz · rank #90,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,220
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stoltenberg
Nearest frequency peer: Stoltenberg (-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 « stolz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stimulera
stimulera
9,783 corpus weight
- Stoltenberg
Stoltenberg
9,782 corpus weight
- stolz
stolz
9,781 corpus weight
- storyboard
storyboard
9,780 corpus weight
- stoïcienne
stoïcienne
9,779 corpus weight
- strangers
strangers
9,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stolz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stolz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃtɔlt͡s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stolz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stolz is uncommon French at frequency #90,220 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃtɔlt͡s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stolz, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stolz, spelled S-T-O-L-Z.
Definition
- 1Fier, convaincu de soi-même, plein de fierté.
- 2Fier, plein de joie sur un accomplissement.
- 3Impressionant, imposant par sa largeur, beauté, etc.
- 4Élevé, caractérise un prix ou une valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stolz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese bescheidenen und stolzen Bourgeois waren der Meinung, Schönheit sei für sie entweder zu teuer oder zu wenig standesgemäß; Schönheit billigten sie nur den Marquisen und den Huren zu.
Sie ist sehr stolz auf ihren Sohn.
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Antonyms
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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