swagger
\ˈswæɡ.ə\
The verdict
“swagger” is uncommon French (frequency #94,311 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,311
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se pavaner, marcher en bombant le torse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swagger · swagger · French
swagger · rank #94,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,311
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sva
Nearest frequency peer: sva (-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 « swagger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supérieurem…
supérieurement
5,694 corpus weight
- surgira
surgira
5,693 corpus weight
- surpayés
surpayés
5,692 corpus weight
- sva
sva
5,691 corpus weight
- swagger
swagger
5,690 corpus weight
- sylphide
sylphide
5,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « swagger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swagger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈswæɡ.ə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « swagger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
swagger is uncommon French at frequency #94,311 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈswæɡ.ə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for swagger in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 swagger, spelled S-W-A-G-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se pavaner, marcher en bombant le torse.
- 2Se vanter, fanfaronner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how swagger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Once our ancestors got moving on two legs, they kept on walking, and that journey has continued right up to today. In a lifetime, the average person will take about 150 million steps—enough to circle Earth three times. We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger. After walking all over someone,…
What hempen home-spuns haue we swaggering here William Shakespeare, songe d’une nuit d’été (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), 1595, page Actus Tertius traductions :
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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