stuc
\styk\
The verdict
“stuc” is uncommon French (frequency #51,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,153
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enduit à base de marbre blanc pulvérisé, mêlé avec de la chaux et de la craie, dont on fait des ornements d’architecture et qu’on emploie aussi pour imiter le marbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stuc · stuc · French
stuc · rank #51,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,153
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH structurants
Nearest frequency peer: structurants (-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 « stuc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stoïcisme
stoïcisme
48,851 corpus weight
- striptease
striptease
48,850 corpus weight
- structurants
structurants
48,849 corpus weight
- stuc
stuc
48,848 corpus weight
- stupid
stupid
48,847 corpus weight
- Styx
Styx
48,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stuc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stuc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \styk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stuc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stuc is uncommon French at frequency #51,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \styk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for stuc in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is stuc, spelled S-T-U-C.
Definition
- 1Enduit à base de marbre blanc pulvérisé, mêlé avec de la chaux et de la craie, dont on fait des ornements d’architecture et qu’on emploie aussi pour imiter le marbre.
- 2Décoration de cette matière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stuc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un double escalier droit, avec un tapis rouge à baguettes de cuivre, s’appuyait contre les hautes murailles en stuc luisant.
[…] les parois en sont revêtues d’une espèce de stuc si bien gâché et si proprement appliqué, qu’il semble que la main de l’homme y ait passé, aussi la queue leur sert-elle de truelle pour appliquer ce mortier qu’ils gâchent avec leurs pieds.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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