Sigourney
The verdict
“Sigourney” is uncommon French (frequency #84,314 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,314
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sigourney · Sigourney · French
Sigourney · rank #84,314 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,314
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Siffredi
Nearest frequency peer: Siffredi (-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 « Sigourney »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siamoises
siamoises
15,689 corpus weight
- Siffredi
Siffredi
15,688 corpus weight
- Sigourney
Sigourney
15,687 corpus weight
- silène
silène
15,686 corpus weight
- sitar
sitar
15,685 corpus weight
- skateurs
skateurs
15,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sigourney » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sigourney |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sigourney » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sigourney is uncommon French at frequency #84,314 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Sigourney has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sigourney, spelled S-I-G-O-U-R-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sigourney appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a fallu « capturer » la Sigourney Weaver de 73 ans, puis recréer son apparence à 14 ans, avant de transposer ses traits sur le personnage de Kiri elle-même.
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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