silène
The verdict
“silène” is an uncommon French word, ranked #84,315 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #84,315
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Satyre âgé, fils ou petit-fils de Silène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “silène” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for silène is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.lɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,315 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for silène in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is silène, spelled S-I-L-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Satyre âgé, fils ou petit-fils de Silène.
- 2Plante herbacée, annuelle ou vivace, du genre Silene, appartenant à la famille des Caryophyllacées.
- 3Nom vulgaire du Satyrus circe, papillon de la famille des Satyridés.
- 4Insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de la famille des nymphalidés, dont les ailes sont de couleur brun foncé et rayées d’une bande blanc crème.
- 5Ouanderou, singe de nom scientifique Macacus silenus.
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Frequency rank: #84,315 in French
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Using “silène”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-I-L-È-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.lɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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