sifflait
\si.flɛ\
The verdict
“sifflait” is uncommon French (frequency #72,741 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,741
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de siffler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sifflait · sifflait · French
sifflait · rank #72,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,741
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH siciliennes
Nearest frequency peer: siciliennes (-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 « sifflait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shuttle
shuttle
27,263 corpus weight
- shérifs
shérifs
27,262 corpus weight
- siciliennes
siciliennes
27,261 corpus weight
- sifflait
sifflait
27,260 corpus weight
- Sihanouk
Sihanouk
27,259 corpus weight
- Simca
Simca
27,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sifflait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sifflait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.flɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sifflait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sifflait is uncommon French at frequency #72,741 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.flɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de siffler.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sifflait in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sifflait, spelled S-I-F-F-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de siffler.
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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