stretch
\stʁɛtʃ\
The verdict
“stretch” is uncommon French (frequency #51,761 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,761
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu élastique, extensible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stretch · stretch · French
stretch · rank #51,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,761
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH streets
Nearest frequency peer: streets (-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 « stretch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- squatteurs
squatteurs
48,245 corpus weight
- stora
stora
48,243 corpus weight
- strabisme
strabisme
48,242 corpus weight
- streets
streets
48,241 corpus weight
- stretch
stretch
48,240 corpus weight
- surhomme
surhomme
48,236 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stretch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stretch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁɛtʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stretch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stretch is uncommon French at frequency #51,761 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁɛtʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tissu élastique, extensible.".
stretch doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 stretch, spelled S-T-R-E-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Tissu élastique, extensible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stretch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chemises sont aussi prises, largement à la taille, par un motif en stretch.
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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