signature

/\si.ɲa.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,105

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

signature is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom d’une personne écrit de sa main, mis à la fin d’une lettre, d’un contrat, ou d’un acte quelconque, pour le certifier, pour le confirmer, pour le rendre valable. Pronounced \si.ɲa.tyʁ\. It ranks #3,105 in French word frequency. Often confused with signatures and signataire.

Key facts for signature
PropertyValue
Headwordsignature
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.ɲa.tyʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,105
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of signature in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for signature is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ɲa.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,105 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for signature, with forms such as "isgnature", "sginature", and "siganture". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "signatures", "signataire", 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 signature, spelled S-I-G-N-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom d’une personne écrit de sa main, mis à la fin d’une lettre, d’un contrat, ou d’un acte quelconque, pour le certifier, pour le confirmer, pour le rendre valable.
  2. 2
    Action de signer.
  3. 3
    Marque distinctive, manière de faire ou résultat particulier auxquels on reconnaît l’auteur d’une œuvre ou d’un acte.
  4. 4
    Signe qui révèle la présence d’une personne ou d’une chose cachée.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des caractéristiques d’un signal qui permettent l’identification d’une cible.
  6. 6
    Lettre, chiffre ou signe que l’on met au bas des feuilles imprimées, pour en reconnaître l’ordre quand il s’agit de les assembler et d’en former un volume à partir de différents cahiers.
  7. 7
    Slogan publicitaire accolé au nom d’une marque et la caractérisant.
  8. 8
    Modèle utilisé pour assortir l’identité d’un virus, ou des types de comportement.
  9. 9
    Ce qui démarque, qui est empreint d’un certain prestige.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: isgnature,sginature,siganture,siggnature,signatrue,signatture,signatuer,signaturre,signautre,signnature,signtaure,singature,ssignature

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for signature

Misspelling Variants of "signature"

isgnature9sginature9siganture9siggnature10signatrue9signatture10signatuer9signaturre10
Misspelling Variants of "signature"

Frequency rank: #3,105 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "signature"?
"signature" is spelled S-I-G-N-A-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.ɲa.tyʁ\.
What does "signature" mean?
As a noun, "signature" means: Nom d’une personne écrit de sa main, mis à la fin d’une lettre, d’un contrat, ou d’un acte quelconque, pour le certifier, pour le confirmer, pour le rendre valable.
What words are commonly confused with "signature"?
"signature" is commonly confused with "signatures", "signataire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "signature"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "signature" is \si.ɲa.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "signature" come from?
"signature" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.