strand
\stɹænd\
The verdict
“strand” is uncommon French (frequency #57,617 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,617
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un aspect d’un argument ou d’une philosophie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strand · strand · French
strand · rank #57,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,617
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sticks
Nearest frequency peer: sticks (-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 « strand »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- steps
steps
42,387 corpus weight
- sterne
sterne
42,386 corpus weight
- sticks
sticks
42,385 corpus weight
- strand
strand
42,384 corpus weight
- Studien
Studien
42,383 corpus weight
- stup
stup
42,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « strand » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɹænd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « strand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
strand is uncommon French at frequency #57,617 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stɹænd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for strand in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 strand, spelled S-T-R-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Un aspect d’un argument ou d’une philosophie.
- 2ou Plage.
- 3Plage, rivage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how strand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Strand vegetation is the area of land next to the rocky shore, bathed in salt water and salt spray and dried by high wind, heat, and sunlight.
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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