siffler
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,167
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
siffler is aFrenchverb. It means: Émettre un son aigu, soit avec les lèvres, soit en soufflant dans un sifflet, dans une clef forée, etc. Pronounced \si.fle\. Often confused with simuler and sifflet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | siffler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.fle\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for siffler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.fle\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,167 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for siffler, with forms such as "isffler", "sfifler", and "siffelr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "simuler", "sifflet", "souffler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is siffler, spelled S-I-F-F-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Émettre un son aigu, soit avec les lèvres, soit en soufflant dans un sifflet, dans une clef forée, etc.
- 2Chanter, en parlant de certains oiseaux.
- 3Produire le son aigu que font entendre les serpents quand ils sont en colère.
- 4Produire le son aigu que font entendre quelques animaux, comme les cygnes, les oies, etc., quand ils sont en colère.
- 5Crier, en parlant de la marmotte.
- 6Émettre un son aigu, en parlant du vent, d’une flèche, d’une balle de fusil, etc.
- 7Faire entendre un sifflement en respirant.
- 8Exécuter un air en sifflant.
- 9Appeler en sifflant.
- 10Avertir par un coup de sifflet.
- 11Accueillir avec des sifflements, à coups de sifflet, pour marquer sa désapprobation.
- 12Désapprouver, accueillir avec dérision, avec mépris.
- 13Boire d’un trait.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isffler,sfifler,siffelr,sifflerr,siffller,sifflre,sifler,siflfer,ssiffler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for siffler
Misspelling Variants of "siffler"
Frequency rank: #21,167 in French
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