stout
\stut\
The verdict
“stout” is uncommon French (frequency #51,149 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,149
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bière noire forte préparée à partir de grains très torréfiés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stout · stout · French
stout · rank #51,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,149
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stirling
Nearest frequency peer: Stirling (-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 « stout »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- starlette
starlette
48,855 corpus weight
- stimulations
stimulations
48,854 corpus weight
- Stirling
Stirling
48,853 corpus weight
- stout
stout
48,852 corpus weight
- stoïcisme
stoïcisme
48,851 corpus weight
- striptease
striptease
48,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stout » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stut\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stout is uncommon French at frequency #51,149 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bière noire forte préparée à partir de grains très torréfiés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for stout in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is stout, spelled S-T-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Bière noire forte préparée à partir de grains très torréfiés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et parmi les bouteilles de gin, de whisky, de stout et de pale-ale, le portrait du Prince de Galles voisinait avec une série de petits drapeaux américains plantés dans des verres.
Il est absurde de ne pas boire une pinte de stout quand il ruisselle de quatre robinets, pareils chacun à la tête du cygne de Léda. Cependant, avec la sole et le pie, je préférai une bouteille de saint-émilion.
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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