signala
\si.ɲa.la\
The verdict
“signala” is uncommon French (frequency #65,515 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,515
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signala · signala · French
signala · rank #65,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,515
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sica
Nearest frequency peer: sica (-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 « signala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- severe
severe
34,489 corpus weight
- shutdown
shutdown
34,488 corpus weight
- sica
sica
34,487 corpus weight
- signala
signala
34,486 corpus weight
- sinusite
sinusite
34,485 corpus weight
- skies
skies
34,484 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « signala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ɲa.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « signala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
signala is uncommon French at frequency #65,515 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ɲa.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signaler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for signala, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is signala, spelled S-I-G-N-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de signaler.
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 "signala"?
What does "signala" mean?
How do you pronounce "signala"?
What language does "signala" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "signala", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).