sicario
The verdict
“sicario” is uncommon French (frequency #94,276 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,276
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tueur à gages, sicaire , assassin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sicario · sicario · French
sicario · rank #94,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,276
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sibylles
Nearest frequency peer: sibylles (-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 « sicario »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siberia
siberia
5,727 corpus weight
- sibylles
sibylles
5,726 corpus weight
- sicario
sicario
5,725 corpus weight
- siesta
siesta
5,724 corpus weight
- sifflera
sifflera
5,723 corpus weight
- sifflés
sifflés
5,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sicario » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sicario |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sicario » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sicario is uncommon French at frequency #94,276 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tueur à gages, sicaire , assassin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sicario, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sicario, spelled S-I-C-A-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Tueur à gages, sicaire , assassin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sicario appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En febrero, Juan Galán fue golpeado y murió a manos de unos sicarios contratados por Margarita, su mujer, quien alegó malos tratos como motivo del crimen.
La Virgen de los sicarios, La Vierge des tueurs. (film)
Synonyms
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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