Svalbard
\sval.baʁd\
The verdict
“Svalbard” is uncommon French (frequency #69,462 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,462
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel entre l’océan Arctique et l’océan Atlantique qui dépend du royaume de Norvège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-svalbard · Svalbard · French
Svalbard · rank #69,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspectées
Nearest frequency peer: suspectées (-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 « Svalbard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surrénales
surrénales
30,543 corpus weight
- susi
susi
30,541 corpus weight
- suspectées
suspectées
30,540 corpus weight
- Svalbard
Svalbard
30,539 corpus weight
- svod
svod
30,538 corpus weight
- tackle
tackle
30,536 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Svalbard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Svalbard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sval.baʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Svalbard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Svalbard is uncommon French at frequency #69,462 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sval.baʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archipel entre l’océan Arctique et l’océan Atlantique qui dépend du royaume de Norvège.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Svalbard in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Svalbard, spelled S-V-A-L-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Archipel entre l’océan Arctique et l’océan Atlantique qui dépend du royaume de Norvège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Svalbard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le Svalbard se réchauffe sept fois plus vite que le reste de la planète », indique la glaciologue Heïdi Sevestre, dans Demain, c’est nous (éd. du Faubourg), livre qui retrace l’aventure de François Bernard, dont elle est partie prenante depuis le début.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).