swim
[swɪm]
The verdict
“swim” is uncommon French (frequency #67,144 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,144
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Natation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swim · swim · French
swim · rank #67,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,144
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sustainable
Nearest frequency peer: sustainable (-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 « swim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surnuméraire
surnuméraire
32,860 corpus weight
- surreprésen…
surreprésentation
32,859 corpus weight
- sustainable
sustainable
32,858 corpus weight
- swim
swim
32,857 corpus weight
- synchronisme
synchronisme
32,856 corpus weight
- séchant
séchant
32,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « swim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [swɪm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « swim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
swim is uncommon French at frequency #67,144 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [swɪm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Natation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for swim in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 swim, spelled S-W-I-M.
Definition
- 1Natation.
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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