sifflée
\si.fle\
The verdict
“sifflée” is uncommon French (frequency #59,636 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,636
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de siffler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sifflee · sifflée · French
sifflée · rank #59,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,636
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sieurs
Nearest frequency peer: sieurs (-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 « sifflée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siem
siem
40,367 corpus weight
- sieurs
sieurs
40,366 corpus weight
- sifflée
sifflée
40,365 corpus weight
- sik
sik
40,364 corpus weight
- sila
sila
40,363 corpus weight
- Sintra
Sintra
40,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sifflée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sifflée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.fle\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sifflée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sifflée is uncommon French at frequency #59,636 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.fle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de siffler.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sifflée in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sifflée, spelled S-I-F-F-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier 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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