scintillement
\sɛ̃.tij.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“scintillement” is uncommon French (frequency #70,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de scintiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scintillement · scintillement · French
scintillement · rank #70,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,203
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scandant
Nearest frequency peer: scandant (-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 « scintillement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sartène
Sartène
29,802 corpus weight
- saying
saying
29,801 corpus weight
- scandant
scandant
29,799 corpus weight
- scintilleme…
scintillement
29,798 corpus weight
- scola
scola
29,797 corpus weight
- scrupuleuse
scrupuleuse
29,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scintillement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scintillement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.tij.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scintillement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scintillement is uncommon French at frequency #70,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.tij.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
scintillement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scintillement, spelled S-C-I-N-T-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de scintiller.
- 2Fluctuation de la vitesse relative entre un support d'enregistrement et la tête d'enregistrement ou de lecture, dont la fréquence est supérieure à 10 hertz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scintillement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’azur à peine noirci du couchant, l’étoile du berger brillait d’un feu paisible, sans un scintillement ; l’air était calme.
Dans la salle à manger, marron et or, pleine de lumières, je me suis assis à la table d’hôte. C’est un scintillement général, un brouhaha, le grand empressement vide du début des repas.
This word in other languages
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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