signora
\si.ɲɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“signora” is uncommon French (frequency #54,264 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,264
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Madame, dans un contexte italien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signora · signora · French
signora · rank #54,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,264
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sidonie
Nearest frequency peer: Sidonie (-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 « signora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ships
ships
45,740 corpus weight
- Sidonie
Sidonie
45,738 corpus weight
- signora
signora
45,737 corpus weight
- Sisteron
Sisteron
45,736 corpus weight
- skyline
skyline
45,735 corpus weight
- snobs
snobs
45,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « signora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɲɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « signora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
signora is uncommon French at frequency #54,264 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ɲɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Madame, dans un contexte italien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for signora in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is signora, spelled S-I-G-N-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Madame, dans un contexte italien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how signora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trévise, quant à elle, est formelle, c’est à la signora Alba, épouse du restaurateur Campeol, que revient la conception, dans les années 1960, de l’actuel tiramisu : la finaude sut transformer une erreur, du mascarpone versé par inadvertance dans un sabayon, en recette miraculeuse enrichie au cacao et au café.
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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