signa

\si.ɲa\

/\si.ɲa\/ verb

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The verdict

“signa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,371
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-signa · signa · French

signa · rank #30,371 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,371
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Siegfried

Nearest frequency peer: Siegfried (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « signa »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « signa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

signa vs sin
60% similar
signa vs Sion
40% similar
signa vs sine
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for signa
PropertyValue
Headwordsigna
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\si.ɲa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#30,371
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « signa »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).signase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Siegfried » (#30,370), « silos » (#30,372), « Simard » (#30,373). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « signa » est au #30,371. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around signa (IPA \si.ɲa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,371 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for signa, with forms such as "isgna", "sgina", and "sigan". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sin", "Sion", "sine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is signa, spelled S-I-G-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how signa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. François Iᵉʳ signa et apposa le sceau particulier dont il se servait pour authentiquer les pièces secrètes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • isgna
  • sgina
  • sigan
  • siggna
  • signna
  • singa
  • ssigna

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of signa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

isgna2sgina2sigan2siggna1signna1singa2ssigna1
Edit distance from "signa"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "signa"?
"signa" is spelled S-I-G-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is \si.ɲa\.
What does "signa" mean?
As a verb, "signa" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signer.
What words are commonly confused with "signa"?
"signa" is commonly confused with "sin", "Sion", "sine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "signa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "signa" is \si.ɲa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "signa" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "signa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

silos#30,372skins#30,376saule#30,361Swann#30,388

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

uriner7 variantspuant7 variantsvizir7 variantswhile7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list