stony
\ˈstəʊ.ni\
The verdict
“stony” is uncommon French (frequency #70,236 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,236
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de pierre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stony · stony · French
stony · rank #70,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stigma
Nearest frequency peer: stigma (-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 « stony »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SST
SST
29,769 corpus weight
- stabilisent
stabilisent
29,768 corpus weight
- stigma
stigma
29,766 corpus weight
- stony
stony
29,765 corpus weight
- stylisés
stylisés
29,762 corpus weight
- subdivisé
subdivisé
29,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stony » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stony |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈstəʊ.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stony » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stony is uncommon French at frequency #70,236 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈstəʊ.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stony, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 stony, spelled S-T-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Fait de pierre.
- 2Faite de pierres, pierreux, caillouteux.
- 3Dur comme de la pierre.
- 4Qui a un cœur de pierre.
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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