sierras
\sjɛ.ʁa\
The verdict
“sierras” is uncommon French (frequency #98,487 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,487
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sierra.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sierras · sierras · French
sierras · rank #98,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,487
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sibylline
Nearest frequency peer: sibylline (-2 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 « sierras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shanahan
Shanahan
1,518 corpus weight
- shiv
shiv
1,517 corpus weight
- sibylline
sibylline
1,516 corpus weight
- sierras
sierras
1,514 corpus weight
- sillonnaient
sillonnaient
1,511 corpus weight
- simonie
simonie
1,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sierras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sierras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɛ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sierras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sierras is uncommon French at frequency #98,487 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sjɛ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sierra.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sierras in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sierras, spelled S-I-E-R-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sierra.
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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