swallow
\ˈswɑ.loʊ\
The verdict
“swallow” is uncommon French (frequency #83,410 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,410
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swallow · swallow · French
swallow · rank #83,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,410
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH svenska
Nearest frequency peer: svenska (-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 « swallow »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surfaite
surfaite
16,594 corpus weight
- surfeuse
surfeuse
16,593 corpus weight
- svenska
svenska
16,592 corpus weight
- swallow
swallow
16,591 corpus weight
- syllabus
syllabus
16,590 corpus weight
- synthétisée
synthétisée
16,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « swallow » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swallow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈswɑ.loʊ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « swallow » en français
Rare enough to double-check
swallow is uncommon French at frequency #83,410 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈswɑ.loʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for swallow 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 swallow, spelled S-W-A-L-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1Avaler.
- 2Absorber rapidement.
- 3Accepter sans modification.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how swallow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The huge wave of earth from the landslide swallowed 33 buildings, including apartments, worker dormitories and factories, which crumpled like cardboard as the man-made mountain of debris collapsed.
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).