signèrent
\si.ɲɛʁ\
The verdict
“signèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #69,432 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,432
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de signer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signerent · signèrent · French
signèrent · rank #69,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,432
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signerait
Nearest frequency peer: signerait (-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 « signèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shanna
Shanna
30,573 corpus weight
- Sieg
Sieg
30,571 corpus weight
- signerait
signerait
30,570 corpus weight
- signèrent
signèrent
30,569 corpus weight
- simplex
simplex
30,568 corpus weight
- skunk
skunk
30,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « signèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ɲɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « signèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
signèrent is uncommon French at frequency #69,432 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ɲɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de signer.".
signèrent has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is signèrent, spelled S-I-G-N-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de signer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how signèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il rejoignit son équipe en tanguant et expliqua leur mission à ses hommes. Ils ne bronchèrent pas, mais beaucoup se signèrent.
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.
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