sénilité
\se.ni.li.te\
The verdict
“sénilité” is uncommon French (frequency #67,909 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,909
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affaiblissement du corps et de l’esprit produit par la vieillesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-senilite · sénilité · French
sénilité · rank #67,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,909
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH synchronisées
Nearest frequency peer: synchronisées (-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 « sénilité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surfé
surfé
32,096 corpus weight
- surin
surin
32,095 corpus weight
- susvisé
susvisé
32,094 corpus weight
- synchronisé…
synchronisées
32,093 corpus weight
- sénilité
sénilité
32,092 corpus weight
- Tamanrasset
Tamanrasset
32,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sénilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sénilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ni.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sénilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sénilité is uncommon French at frequency #67,909 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.ni.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affaiblissement du corps et de l’esprit produit par la vieillesse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sénilité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sénilité, spelled S-É-N-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Affaiblissement du corps et de l’esprit produit par la vieillesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sénilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie du crapaud comporte-t-elle une phase de sénilité ? En tout cas, sa longévité est grande […]
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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