stoppa
\stɔ.pa\
The verdict
“stoppa” is uncommon French (frequency #68,669 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,669
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de stopper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stoppa · stoppa · French
stoppa · rank #68,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,669
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sticky
Nearest frequency peer: sticky (-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 « stoppa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- statistical
statistical
31,335 corpus weight
- Steinbeck
Steinbeck
31,334 corpus weight
- sticky
sticky
31,333 corpus weight
- stoppa
stoppa
31,332 corpus weight
- strapontin
strapontin
31,330 corpus weight
- struggle
struggle
31,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stoppa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stoppa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \stɔ.pa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stoppa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stoppa is uncommon French at frequency #68,669 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \stɔ.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de stopper.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stoppa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 stoppa, spelled S-T-O-P-P-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de stopper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stoppa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une puissante voiture de marque étrangère stoppa au bout de l’avenue Ruysdaël, tout près de l’entrée du parc Monceau.
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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