sigle
French, noun
sigle is spelled S-I-G-L-E (5 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sigle is a French masculine noun meaning “abbreviation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, siglé is a different word: “past participle of sigler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Initiale servant d’abréviation, dans un manuscrit ancien, sur une pièce de monnaie, etc”.
What does sigle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineabbreviation
- 2
masculineacronym or initialism
verb
- 1
past participle of sigler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Initiale servant d’abréviation, dans un manuscrit ancien, sur une pièce de monnaie, etc. 2. Abrègement d’un syntagme ou d’un mot composé, formé avec les initiales (ou parfois les premières lettres) de certains de ses composants. 3. Sicilicus.
noun: 1. Falaise gréseuse sur laquelle s’entassent des blocs erratiques.
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 sigle
- sigles plural
- siglée feminine
- siglés masculine plural
- siglées feminine plural
- cigle
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sigle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sigle in French?
sigle appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).