stratus
\stʁa.tys\
The verdict
“stratus” is uncommon French (frequency #89,207 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,207
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuage ayant la forme d’une longue bande et qui se présente parallèlement à d’autres du même genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stratus · stratus · French
stratus · rank #89,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stoppées
Nearest frequency peer: stoppées (-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 « stratus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stimulées
stimulées
10,796 corpus weight
- stoppées
stoppées
10,795 corpus weight
- stratus
stratus
10,794 corpus weight
- straw
straw
10,793 corpus weight
- Studer
Studer
10,792 corpus weight
- subjuguer
subjuguer
10,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stratus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stratus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁa.tys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stratus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stratus is uncommon French at frequency #89,207 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁa.tys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nuage ayant la forme d’une longue bande et qui se présente parallèlement à d’autres du même genre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stratus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 stratus, spelled S-T-R-A-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nuage ayant la forme d’une longue bande et qui se présente parallèlement à d’autres du même genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stratus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres aspects de l’amour divin, Michel sait qu’il en existe, comme des cercles concentriques sur l’eau calme ou des stratus superposés le soir en plein ciel.
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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