sweep
\swiːp\
The verdict
“sweep” is uncommon French (frequency #98,541 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,541
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ramoneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sweep · sweep · French
sweep · rank #98,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,541
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH syntagma
Nearest frequency peer: syntagma (+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 « sweep »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surenchérit
surenchérit
1,464 corpus weight
- survivaient
survivaient
1,463 corpus weight
- Suzan
Suzan
1,462 corpus weight
- sweep
sweep
1,460 corpus weight
- syntagma
syntagma
1,459 corpus weight
- synthétisant
synthétisant
1,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sweep » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sweep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swiːp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sweep » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sweep is uncommon French at frequency #98,541 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swiːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ramoneur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sweep in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sweep, spelled S-W-E-E-P.
Definition
- 1Ramoneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sweep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chim-chimney, chim-chimney, chim chim cheree - A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be.
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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