sweets
\swiːts\
The verdict
“sweets” is uncommon French (frequency #88,138 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,138
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sweet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sweets · sweets · French
sweets · rank #88,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,138
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suèves
Nearest frequency peer: suèves (-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 « sweets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- susini
susini
11,866 corpus weight
- susmentionn…
susmentionnée
11,865 corpus weight
- suèves
suèves
11,864 corpus weight
- sweets
sweets
11,863 corpus weight
- Swissair
Swissair
11,862 corpus weight
- Sylvaine
Sylvaine
11,861 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sweets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sweets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swiːts\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sweets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sweets is uncommon French at frequency #88,138 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swiːts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sweet.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sweets, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sweets, spelled S-W-E-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sweet.
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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