strident
\stʁi.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“strident” is uncommon French (frequency #60,397 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,397
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rend un son aigu, perçant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strident · strident · French
strident · rank #60,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,397
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stratigraphie
Nearest frequency peer: stratigraphie (-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 « strident »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stationnent
stationnent
39,608 corpus weight
- strasbourge…
strasbourgeoise
39,606 corpus weight
- stratigraph…
stratigraphie
39,605 corpus weight
- strident
strident
39,604 corpus weight
- strips
strips
39,603 corpus weight
- stroke
stroke
39,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « strident » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \stʁi.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « strident » en français
Rare enough to double-check
strident is uncommon French at frequency #60,397 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \stʁi.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui rend un son aigu, perçant.".
strident doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is strident, spelled S-T-R-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui rend un son aigu, perçant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les prairies étaient stridentes, il y avait toujours eu ces coassements, ces abois, ces rires.
Y'avait partout des cris stridents Y'avait partout des mains coupables Et des bandits considérables Qui me faisaient grincer des dents.
Synonyms
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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