sigisbée
French, noun/si.ʒis.be/
sigisbée is spelled S-I-G-I-S-B-É-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sigisbée is a French masculine noun meaning “cicisbeo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Homme qui, dans l’Italie du XVIIIᵉ siècle, accompagnait officiellement et au grand jour une dame mariée avec…”.
What does sigisbée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecicisbeo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Homme qui, dans l’Italie du XVIIIᵉ siècle, accompagnait officiellement et au grand jour une dame mariée avec un autre homme. 2. Homme qui entoure une dame d’hommages et de soins attentifs et constants.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de sigisbée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sigisbée
- sigisbées plural
- Sigisbées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sigisbée?
- /si.ʒis.be/
- \si.ʒis.be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sigisbée in French?
sigisbée appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).