scénographe
\se.nɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“scénographe” is uncommon French (frequency #61,886 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,886
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui pratique la scénographie. Individu dont le travail consiste à concevoir et créer le décor d’un spectacle, l’arrangement spatial d’une exposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scenographe · scénographe · French
scénographe · rank #61,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,886
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semestrielle
Nearest frequency peer: semestrielle (+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 « scénographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Schuster
Schuster
38,118 corpus weight
- scindée
scindée
38,117 corpus weight
- scénographe
scénographe
38,115 corpus weight
- semestrielle
semestrielle
38,114 corpus weight
- semées
semées
38,113 corpus weight
- sequence
sequence
38,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scénographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scénographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.nɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scénographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scénographe is uncommon French at frequency #61,886 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.nɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle qui pratique la scénographie. Individu dont le travail consiste à concevoir et créer le décor d’un spectacle, l’arrangement spatial d’une exposition.".
scénographe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is scénographe, spelled S-C-É-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui pratique la scénographie. Individu dont le travail consiste à concevoir et créer le décor d’un spectacle, l’arrangement spatial d’une exposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scénographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le scénographe est pour le/la muséographe l’un de ses premiers visiteurs.
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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