signature
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɲa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Nom 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.
- 2Action de signer.
- 3Marque distinctive, manière de faire ou résultat particulier auxquels on reconnaît l’auteur d’une œuvre ou d’un acte.
- 4Signe qui révèle la présence d’une personne ou d’une chose cachée.
- 5Ensemble des caractéristiques d’un signal qui permettent l’identification d’une cible.
- 6Lettre, 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.
- 7Slogan publicitaire accolé au nom d’une marque et la caractérisant.
- 8Modèle utilisé pour assortir l’identité d’un virus, ou des types de comportement.
- 9Ce qui démarque, qui est empreint d’un certain prestige.
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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"
Frequency rank: #3,105 in French
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