serin
\sə.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“serin” is uncommon French (frequency #52,988 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,988
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petit oiseau passereau à bec conique, au plumage ordinairement jaune, auquel on apprend à siffler, à chanter des airs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serin · serin · French
serin · rank #52,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,988
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scénarisé
Nearest frequency peer: scénarisé (-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 « serin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scoot
scoot
47,016 corpus weight
- scénar
scénar
47,015 corpus weight
- scénarisé
scénarisé
47,014 corpus weight
- serin
serin
47,013 corpus weight
- situerait
situerait
47,011 corpus weight
- sive
sive
47,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serin is uncommon French at frequency #52,988 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
serin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is serin, spelled S-E-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau à bec conique, au plumage ordinairement jaune, auquel on apprend à siffler, à chanter des airs.
- 2Quelqu’un qui est niais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, le caractère vraiment ornemental et architectural des armoiries, qui ne tolérait pas une représentation des objets sous leur forme parfaitement naturelle, se conserva […] jusqu’au milieu du 16ᵉ [siècle]. Depuis, les bonnes traditions allèrent s’affaiblissant, jusqu’au 19ᵉ qui a été témoin de la décadence complète de cet art vénérable, dont il s…
Une cage à serins était pendue au plafond ; les oiseaux avaient été emportés, mais la mangeoire était pleine de chenevis.
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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