saynète
\sɛ.nɛt\
The verdict
“saynète” is uncommon French (frequency #88,077 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,077
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite pièce bouffonne du théâtre espagnol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saynete · saynète · French
saynète · rank #88,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,077
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH savonner
Nearest frequency peer: savonner (-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 « saynète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salla
salla
11,928 corpus weight
- samoan
samoan
11,927 corpus weight
- savonner
savonner
11,925 corpus weight
- saynète
saynète
11,924 corpus weight
- scandés
scandés
11,923 corpus weight
- screening
screening
11,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saynète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saynète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saynète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saynète is uncommon French at frequency #88,077 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for saynète in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is saynète, spelled S-A-Y-N-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite pièce bouffonne du théâtre espagnol.
- 2Dans le théâtre français, désigne une pièce légère en un acte, à peu de personnages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saynète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la séance récréative qui avait lieu chaque année, aux environs de Noël, on nous fit jouer ensemble une saynète.
Ce que j'aime aussi de la messe de minuit à vingt heures, c'est la petite saynète pour nous faire comprendre les mystères de Noël
Synonyms
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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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