Swissair
\swis.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“Swissair” is uncommon French (frequency #88,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,139
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne compagnie aérienne nationale suisse, qui a cessé son activité en mars 2002.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swissair · Swissair · French
Swissair · rank #88,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,139
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sweets
Nearest frequency peer: sweets (-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 « Swissair »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- syncrétique
syncrétique
11,860 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Swissair » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Swissair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \swis.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Swissair » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Swissair is uncommon French at frequency #88,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \swis.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne compagnie aérienne nationale suisse, qui a cessé son activité en mars 2002.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Swissair, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Swissair, spelled S-W-I-S-S-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ancienne compagnie aérienne nationale suisse, qui a cessé son activité en mars 2002.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Swissair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vente de la chaîne hôtelière Swissôtel par Swissair en 2001 au groupe singapourien Raffles, fait l’objet d’une enquête pénale à Zurich, a-t-on appris lundi de source judiciaire.
La chaîne hôtelière Swissôtel, filiale de la compagnie aérienne Swissair et qui exploite 16 hôtels (5.535 chambres) dans le monde dont 9 en pleine propriété, veut doubler son parc et son chiffre d’affaires (1,2 milliard de francs français en 1994) d’ici à la fin de la décennie, au rythme de 2 ou 3 établissements nouveaux par an, ont annoncé, hier, ses res…
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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