swipe
\swajp\
The verdict
“swipe” is uncommon French (frequency #89,221 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,221
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interaction avec un écran tactile en déplaçant rapidement son doigt sur celui-ci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swipe · swipe · French
swipe · rank #89,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,221
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH swings
Nearest frequency peer: swings (-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 « swipe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surimi
surimi
10,785 corpus weight
- surrénale
surrénale
10,784 corpus weight
- swings
swings
10,781 corpus weight
- swipe
swipe
10,780 corpus weight
- synchrotron
synchrotron
10,779 corpus weight
- syndicate
syndicate
10,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « swipe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swipe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swajp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « swipe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
swipe is uncommon French at frequency #89,221 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swajp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interaction avec un écran tactile en déplaçant rapidement son doigt sur celui-ci.".
swipe has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is swipe, spelled S-W-I-P-E.
Definition
- 1Interaction avec un écran tactile en déplaçant rapidement son doigt sur celui-ci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how swipe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, vous n’êtes peut-être qu’à quelques swipes de votre prochaine mission intérim.
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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