sidération
\si.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“sidération” is an uncommon French word, ranked #56,927 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,927
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble des maladies des arbres produites par la mauvaise influence des astres ; action néfaste des météores sur la végétation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sidération |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sidération” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sidération is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #56,927 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
sidération has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sidération, spelled S-I-D-É-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des maladies des arbres produites par la mauvaise influence des astres ; action néfaste des météores sur la végétation.
- 2Influence subite attribuée à un astre, sur la vie ou la santé d’une personne.
- 3État d’anéantissement subit, produit par certaines maladies, qui semblent frapper les organes avec la promptitude de l’éclair ou de la foudre, comme l’apoplexie.
- 4Dysfonction contractile transitoire d'un muscle.
- 5Profonde stupeur vécue lors d'une violence subie, particulièrement un viol ; paralysie et dissociation mentale et émotionnelle qui empêche toute compréhension, réflexion et action, et cause un trouble de stress post-traumatique.
- 6État de fort étonnement.
- 7Procédé cultural qui introduit les légumineuses (luzerne, trèfle, sainfoin, etc) dans la rotation culturale, en culture dérobée ou en culture sous couvert.
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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Using “sidération”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-I-D-É-R-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.