streetwear

\stʁit.wɛʁ\

/\stʁit.wɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“streetwear” is uncommon French (frequency #76,150 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,150
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style vestimentaire qui consiste en grande partie à porter des jeans très larges, de grosses chaussures ainsi que des t-shirts plus ou moins larges, mais qui peuvent aussi être moulants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-streetwear · streetwear · French

streetwear · rank #76,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,150
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH steal

Nearest frequency peer: steal (-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 « streetwear »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « streetwear » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for streetwear
PropertyValue
Headwordstreetwear
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stʁit.wɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#76,150
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « streetwear » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.streetweartombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « steal » (#76,149), « structurantes » (#76,151), « strychnine » (#76,152). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « streetwear » est au #76,150. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

streetwear is uncommon French at frequency #76,150 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁit.wɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Style vestimentaire qui consiste en grande partie à porter des jeans très larges, de grosses chaussures ainsi que des t-shirts plus ou moins larges, mais qui peuvent aussi être moulants.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for streetwear, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is streetwear, spelled S-T-R-E-E-T-W-E-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Style vestimentaire qui consiste en grande partie à porter des jeans très larges, de grosses chaussures ainsi que des t-shirts plus ou moins larges, mais qui peuvent aussi être moulants.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how streetwear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans l'industrie du streetwear, chaque marque correspond à un style en particulier, souvent relié à la pratique d'un sport, comme le ski libre ou la planche à neige.
  2. Il y a d'abord eu la disgrâce du streewear, le ras-le-bol de la basket puis l'envie d'un certain formalisme et la remise au goût du jour d'une forme de classicisme.

Synonyms

skatewear

This word in other languages

streetwear(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "streetwear"?
"streetwear" is spelled S-T-R-E-E-T-W-E-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is \stʁit.wɛʁ\.
What does "streetwear" mean?
As a noun, "streetwear" means: Style vestimentaire qui consiste en grande partie à porter des jeans très larges, de grosses chaussures ainsi que des t-shirts plus ou moins larges, mais qui peuvent aussi être moulants.
How do you pronounce "streetwear"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "streetwear" is \stʁit.wɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "streetwear" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "streetwear", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

strychnine#76,152séquenceur#76,159tortueuses#76,182scellement#76,113

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list