straight
\stʁɛjt\
The verdict
“straight” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #32,608 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #32,608
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hétérosexuel, avec souvent une connotation orthosexuelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | straight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \stʁɛjt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “straight” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for straight is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stʁɛjt\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,608 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for straight, with forms such as "srtaight", "sstraight", and "staright". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 straight, spelled S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Hétérosexuel, avec souvent une connotation orthosexuelle.
- 2Ordinaire, sans originalité, banal.
- 3Honnête, franc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: srtaight,sstraight,staright,stragiht,straigght,straighht,straightt,straigth,straihgt,striaght,strraight,sttraight,tsraight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of straight - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “straight”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stʁɛjt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.