serpentin
\sɛʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“serpentin” is uncommon French (frequency #71,911 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,911
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait penser au serpent, qui imite l’allure du serpent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serpentin · serpentin · French
serpentin · rank #71,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,911
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sermonner
Nearest frequency peer: sermonner (-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 « serpentin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Seltz
Seltz
28,094 corpus weight
- septentrion…
septentrionaux
28,092 corpus weight
- sermonner
sermonner
28,091 corpus weight
- serpentin
serpentin
28,090 corpus weight
- Sieyès
Sieyès
28,087 corpus weight
- singularise
singularise
28,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serpentin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpentin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serpentin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serpentin is uncommon French at frequency #71,911 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for serpentin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 serpentin, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui fait penser au serpent, qui imite l’allure du serpent.
- 2Qualifie un marbre dont le fond est vert avec des taches rouges et blanches ; voir serpentine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serpentin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le basin, l’acier, le lacet épuraient et ne fabriquaient pas les lignes serpentines de cette élégance, comparable à celle d’un jeune peuplier balancé par le vent.
Sa taille était fine et cambrée, elle possédait au suprême degré ce mouvement onduleux, gracieusement serpentin qui distingue les Américaines.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).