cinglée
\sɛ̃.ɡle\
The verdict
“cinglée” is uncommon French (frequency #51,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,356
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage de sexe féminin qui est cinglée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cinglee · cinglée · French
cinglée · rank #51,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cin
Nearest frequency peer: cin (-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 « cinglée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- choose
choose
48,648 corpus weight
- cin
cin
48,646 corpus weight
- cinglée
cinglée
48,645 corpus weight
- cirage
cirage
48,644 corpus weight
- circulatoire
circulatoire
48,643 corpus weight
- civilement
civilement
48,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cinglée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cinglée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ɡle\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cinglée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cinglée is uncommon French at frequency #51,356 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.ɡle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cinglée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cinglée, spelled C-I-N-G-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage de sexe féminin qui est cinglée.
- 2Coup de fouet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cinglée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon fouet, où est mon fouet ? Et l’apercevant, il s’en saisit pour taper de toutes ses forces sur Mony, Alexine et Culculine dont les corps nus bondissaient sous les cinglées qui laissaient des marques saignantes.
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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