sila
\si.la\
The verdict
“sila” is uncommon French (frequency #59,638 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,638
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée au Laos et au Viêt Nam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sila · sila · French
sila · rank #59,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,638
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sik
Nearest frequency peer: sik (-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 « sila »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sieurs
sieurs
40,366 corpus weight
- sifflée
sifflée
40,365 corpus weight
- sik
sik
40,364 corpus weight
- sila
sila
40,363 corpus weight
- Sintra
Sintra
40,361 corpus weight
- sinécure
sinécure
40,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sila » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sila |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sila » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sila is uncommon French at frequency #59,638 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée au Laos et au Viêt Nam.".
sila has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sila, spelled S-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée au Laos et au Viêt Nam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sila appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sila a quelque 20.000 locuteurs dans l’extrême nord-est du Laos.
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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