signor
\si.ɲɔʁ\
The verdict
“signor” is uncommon French (frequency #51,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monsieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signor · signor · French
signor · rank #51,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,133
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sidéral
Nearest frequency peer: sidéral (-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 « signor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sheen
sheen
48,871 corpus weight
- shun
shun
48,870 corpus weight
- sidéral
sidéral
48,869 corpus weight
- signor
signor
48,868 corpus weight
- sixties
sixties
48,867 corpus weight
- skinhead
skinhead
48,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « signor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɲɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « signor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
signor is uncommon French at frequency #51,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ɲɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Monsieur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for signor in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is signor, spelled S-I-G-N-O-R.
Definition
- 1Monsieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how signor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Mais pas trop, car il faudra danser, et puis sauter, et puis marcher, et puis après avoir marché, sauter encore ; enfin il prendra place dans la troupe du signor Vitalis.
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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