strasse
\stʁas\
The verdict
“strasse” is uncommon French (frequency #63,381 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,381
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourre de soie, faite avec le dessus des cocons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strasse · strasse · French
strasse · rank #63,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,381
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stoppés
Nearest frequency peer: stoppés (-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 « strasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- steack
steack
36,624 corpus weight
- stoppés
stoppés
36,621 corpus weight
- strasse
strasse
36,620 corpus weight
- stunt
stunt
36,619 corpus weight
- subversives
subversives
36,618 corpus weight
- succulentes
succulentes
36,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « strasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « strasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
strasse is uncommon French at frequency #63,381 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bourre de soie, faite avec le dessus des cocons.".
strasse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is strasse, spelled S-T-R-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Bourre de soie, faite avec le dessus des cocons.
Synonyms
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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