siciliennes
\si.si.ljɛn\
The verdict
“siciliennes” is uncommon French (frequency #72,740 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,740
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de sicilien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-siciliennes · siciliennes · French
siciliennes · rank #72,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,740
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shérifs
Nearest frequency peer: shérifs (-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 « siciliennes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shiloh
Shiloh
27,264 corpus weight
- shuttle
shuttle
27,263 corpus weight
- shérifs
shérifs
27,262 corpus weight
- siciliennes
siciliennes
27,261 corpus weight
- sifflait
sifflait
27,260 corpus weight
- Sihanouk
Sihanouk
27,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « siciliennes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | siciliennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.si.ljɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « siciliennes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
siciliennes is uncommon French at frequency #72,740 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.si.ljɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de sicilien.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for siciliennes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is siciliennes, spelled S-I-C-I-L-I-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de sicilien.
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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