scion
\sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“scion” is uncommon French (frequency #79,729 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,729
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit brin, petit rejeton tendre et très flexible d’un arbre, d’un arbrisseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scion · scion · French
scion · rank #79,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,729
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schola
Nearest frequency peer: schola (-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 « scion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Scarlatti
Scarlatti
20,276 corpus weight
- schizophrén…
schizophrénique
20,275 corpus weight
- schola
schola
20,273 corpus weight
- scion
scion
20,272 corpus weight
- scélérate
scélérate
20,270 corpus weight
- secondary
secondary
20,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scion is uncommon French at frequency #79,729 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scion, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 scion, spelled S-C-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit brin, petit rejeton tendre et très flexible d’un arbre, d’un arbrisseau.
- 2Partie la plus fine d’une canne à pêche, celle au bout de laquelle on attache la ligne.
- 3Baguette pour battre, fustiger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les scions aujourd’hui sont dans la force de l’âge. À l’orée de la piste forestière, le buste de Prosper Demontzey est lové dans un berceau d’épicéas. Gravé sur le socle, l’acte de foi de ce génie des arbres : « Je ne sais pas de plus noble mission que celle d’aider la nature à reconstituer dans nos montagnes l’ordre qu’elle avait si bien établi et que se…
Les fleurs [du noyer] sont monoïques, en chatons : les mâles, sessiles et pendantes, de couleur vert-brun, longues d’une dizaine de centimètres, se développent sur les branches de l’année précédente alors que les femelles sont réunies en petits groupes terminaux sur les nouveaux scions.
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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