signe
"signe" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“signe” is uncommon English (frequency #62,510 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,510
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of sign.
Corpus desk
Index EN-signe · signe · English
signe · rank #62,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,510
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sider
Nearest frequency peer: sider (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “signe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shebang
shebang
37,495 corpus weight
- Sherborne
Sherborne
37,494 corpus weight
- sica
sica
37,493 corpus weight
- sider
sider
37,492 corpus weight
- signe
signe
37,491 corpus weight
- skybox
skybox
37,487 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “signe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “signe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
signe is uncommon English at frequency #62,510 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of sign.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for signe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is signe, spelled S-I-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of sign.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how signe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But yet it is not enough that the ſickneſle by the ſymptomes and ſignes be plainly diſcerned; […]
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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