signe

/\siɲ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,097

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

signe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Indice ou marque d’une chose. Pronounced \siɲ\. It ranks #1,097 in French word frequency. Often confused with sin and site.

Key facts for signe
PropertyValue
Headwordsigne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\siɲ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,097
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for signe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \siɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,097 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for signe, with forms such as "isgne", "sgine", and "sigen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sin", "site", "sire", and more, 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 signe, spelled S-I-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Indice ou marque d’une chose.
  2. 2
    Ce qui sert à représenter une chose.
  3. 3
    Certaines marques ou taches naturelles qu’on a sur la peau.
  4. 4
    Certaines démonstrations extérieures que l’on fait pour donner à connaître ce que l’on pense ou ce que l’on veut.
  5. 5
    Miracle.
  6. 6
    Phénomènes que l’on voit quelquefois dans le ciel et qu’on regarde comme des sortes de présages.
  7. 7
    Chacune des douze parties de l’écliptique que le Soleil semble parcourir dans l’intervalle d’une année tropique.
  8. 8
    Unité de mesure d’angle plan, égale à la douzième partie du cercle, soit 30 degrés.
  9. 9
    Unité linguistique constituée d’une partie physique, matérielle, le signifiant, et d’une partie abstraite, conceptuelle, le signifié.
  10. 10
    Catégorie regroupant les lettres, signes de ponctuation et les espaces utilisés pour composer un texte. Le signe est une unité fréquemment utilisée pour quantifier le volume d'un texte, le travail à faire sur un texte (écriture, maquettage, traduction).
  11. 11
    Évier.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: isgne,sgine,sigen,siggne,signne,ssigne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for signe

Misspelling Variants of "signe"

isgne5sgine5sigen5siggne6signne6ssigne6
Misspelling Variants of "signe"

Frequency rank: #1,097 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "signe"?
"signe" is spelled S-I-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \siɲ\.
What does "signe" mean?
As a noun, "signe" means: Indice ou marque d’une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "signe"?
"signe" is commonly confused with "sin", "site", "sire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "signe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "signe" is \siɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "signe" come from?
"signe" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.