siesta
\sjɛs.ta\
The verdict
“siesta” is uncommon French (frequency #94,277 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sieste, parfois longue, souvent pendant les après-midis chaud(e)s.
Corpus desk
Index FR-siesta · siesta · French
siesta · rank #94,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sicario
Nearest frequency peer: sicario (-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 « siesta »
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 « siesta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | siesta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɛs.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « siesta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
siesta is uncommon French at frequency #94,277 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sjɛs.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sieste, parfois longue, souvent pendant les après-midis chaud(e)s.".
Zero misspellings are on record for siesta in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is siesta, spelled S-I-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Sieste, parfois longue, souvent pendant les après-midis chaud(e)s.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how siesta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il serait réellement impossible de faire sentir au juste combien est solennelle la siesta des pays chauds, et combien elle a d’influence sur tout ce qui est animé.
Bon gré, mal gré, il faut changer ici son ordre du jour, circuler de grand matin et le soir jusque dans la nuit, et faire comme les Espagnols, une siesta de midi à quatre heures.
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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