sierre
\ˈsje.re\
The verdict
“sierre” is uncommon French (frequency #61,893 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,893
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de serrar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sierre · sierre · French
sierre · rank #61,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,893
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shoots
Nearest frequency peer: shoots (-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 « sierre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sequence
sequence
38,112 corpus weight
- Shigeru
Shigeru
38,110 corpus weight
- shoots
shoots
38,109 corpus weight
- sierre
sierre
38,108 corpus weight
- Sif
Sif
38,107 corpus weight
- sleeping
sleeping
38,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sierre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sierre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsje.re\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sierre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sierre is uncommon French at frequency #61,893 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈsje.re\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sierre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 sierre, spelled S-I-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de serrar.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de serrar.
- 3Troisième personne du singulier de l’impératif de serrar.
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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