sibylline
\si.bi.lin\
The verdict
“sibylline” is uncommon French (frequency #98,485 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,485
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de sibyllin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sibylline · sibylline · French
sibylline · rank #98,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,485
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shiv
Nearest frequency peer: shiv (-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 « sibylline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensibilisé…
sensibilisées
1,520 corpus weight
- septem
septem
1,519 corpus weight
- Shanahan
Shanahan
1,518 corpus weight
- shiv
shiv
1,517 corpus weight
- sibylline
sibylline
1,516 corpus weight
- sierras
sierras
1,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sibylline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sibylline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.bi.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sibylline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sibylline is uncommon French at frequency #98,485 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.bi.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de sibyllin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sibylline in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sibylline, spelled S-I-B-Y-L-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de sibyllin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sibylline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mallarmé ne s’est pas doté d’une langue sibylline pour obtenir le prix Goncourt catégorie imbitable mais parce que des opérations de sens et de captation inédites requièrent de déstructurer le verbe commun.
— Je peins en plein air, répond-il de manière sibylline ou absurde.
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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