stridents
\stʁi.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“stridents” is uncommon French (frequency #85,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,292
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de strident.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stridents · stridents · French
stridents · rank #85,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,292
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stathouder
Nearest frequency peer: stathouder (-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 « stridents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spécialisant
spécialisant
14,712 corpus weight
- sss
sss
14,711 corpus weight
- stathouder
stathouder
14,710 corpus weight
- stridents
stridents
14,709 corpus weight
- stromboli
stromboli
14,708 corpus weight
- stylisation
stylisation
14,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stridents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stridents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \stʁi.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stridents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stridents is uncommon French at frequency #85,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \stʁi.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de strident.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stridents in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 stridents, spelled S-T-R-I-D-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de strident.
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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