Sieyès
\si.jɛs\
The verdict
“Sieyès” is uncommon French (frequency #71,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sieyes · Sieyès · French
Sieyès · rank #71,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,914
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH singularise
Nearest frequency peer: singularise (+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 « Sieyès »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sermonner
sermonner
28,091 corpus weight
- serpentin
serpentin
28,090 corpus weight
- Sieyès
Sieyès
28,087 corpus weight
- singularise
singularise
28,085 corpus weight
- siphons
siphons
28,084 corpus weight
- Sisco
Sisco
28,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sieyès » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sieyès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.jɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sieyès » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sieyès is uncommon French at frequency #71,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \si.jɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Sieyès has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Sieyès, spelled S-I-E-Y-È-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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