sweatshirt
\swɛt.ʃœʁt\
The verdict
“sweatshirt” is uncommon French (frequency #77,069 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,069
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de sweat-shirt, mais moins fréquente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sweatshirt · sweatshirt · French
sweatshirt · rank #77,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,069
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH symptomatolog…
Nearest frequency peer: symptomatologie (+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 « sweatshirt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surveillons
surveillons
22,935 corpus weight
- survols
survols
22,934 corpus weight
- sweatshirt
sweatshirt
22,932 corpus weight
- symptomatol…
symptomatologie
22,931 corpus weight
- systématiser
systématiser
22,930 corpus weight
- sècheresse
sècheresse
22,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sweatshirt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sweatshirt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swɛt.ʃœʁt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sweatshirt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sweatshirt is uncommon French at frequency #77,069 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swɛt.ʃœʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de sweat-shirt, mais moins fréquente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sweatshirt 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sweatshirt, spelled S-W-E-A-T-S-H-I-R-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de sweat-shirt, mais moins fréquente.
Synonyms
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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