signe
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siɲ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Indice ou marque d’une chose.
- 2Ce qui sert à représenter une chose.
- 3Certaines marques ou taches naturelles qu’on a sur la peau.
- 4Certaines démonstrations extérieures que l’on fait pour donner à connaître ce que l’on pense ou ce que l’on veut.
- 5Miracle.
- 6Phénomènes que l’on voit quelquefois dans le ciel et qu’on regarde comme des sortes de présages.
- 7Chacune des douze parties de l’écliptique que le Soleil semble parcourir dans l’intervalle d’une année tropique.
- 8Unité de mesure d’angle plan, égale à la douzième partie du cercle, soit 30 degrés.
- 9Unité linguistique constituée d’une partie physique, matérielle, le signifiant, et d’une partie abstraite, conceptuelle, le signifié.
- 10Catégorie 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).
- 11Évier.
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,097 in French
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