Sihanouk
\sja.nuk\
The verdict
“Sihanouk” is uncommon French (frequency #72,742 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,742
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom d’origine cambodgienne, surtout connu par Norodom Sihanouk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sihanouk · Sihanouk · French
Sihanouk · rank #72,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,742
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sifflait
Nearest frequency peer: sifflait (-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 « Sihanouk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shérifs
shérifs
27,262 corpus weight
- siciliennes
siciliennes
27,261 corpus weight
- sifflait
sifflait
27,260 corpus weight
- Sihanouk
Sihanouk
27,259 corpus weight
- Simca
Simca
27,258 corpus weight
- simulés
simulés
27,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sihanouk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sihanouk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sja.nuk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sihanouk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sihanouk is uncommon French at frequency #72,742 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sja.nuk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom d’origine cambodgienne, surtout connu par Norodom Sihanouk.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Sihanouk in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Sihanouk, spelled S-I-H-A-N-O-U-K.
Definition
- 1Prénom d’origine cambodgienne, surtout connu par Norodom Sihanouk.
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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