signet

/\si.ɲɛ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,233

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

signet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ruban, collé au dos de l’assemblage des cahiers d’un livre, qui ressort du tranchefile de tête, et sert à marquer une page pour y reprendre la lecture ou s’y référer. Pronounced \si.ɲɛ\.

Key facts for signet
PropertyValue
Headwordsignet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.ɲɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#75,233
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for signet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ɲɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,233 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for signet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 signet, spelled S-I-G-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ruban, collé au dos de l’assemblage des cahiers d’un livre, qui ressort du tranchefile de tête, et sert à marquer une page pour y reprendre la lecture ou s’y référer.
  2. 2
    Marque-page en forme de petit ruban.
  3. 3
    Marque-page.
  4. 4
    Clé de cluster : pointeur d'index non-cluster vers une ligne d'une table ou d'un index cluster.
  5. 5
    Onglet.
  6. 6
    Chevalière, anneau qu'on portait à son doigt, et avec lequel on scellait les affaires courantes.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #75,233 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "signet"?
"signet" is spelled S-I-G-N-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \si.ɲɛ\.
What does "signet" mean?
As a noun, "signet" means: Ruban, collé au dos de l’assemblage des cahiers d’un livre, qui ressort du tranchefile de tête, et sert à marquer une page pour y reprendre la lecture ou s’y référer.
How do you pronounce "signet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "signet" is \si.ɲɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "signet" come from?
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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.