silène
\si.lɛn\
The verdict
“silène” is uncommon French (frequency #84,315 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,315
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Satyre âgé, fils ou petit-fils de Silène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silene · silène · French
silène · rank #84,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,315
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sigourney
Nearest frequency peer: Sigourney (-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 « silène »
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 « silène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « silène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
silène is uncommon French at frequency #84,315 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for silène, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 silène, spelled S-I-L-È-N-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les silènes faisaient partie du cortège de Bacchus.
On notera, enfin, que la plante connue des Anciens sous le nom d’Aphrodes porte à présent le nom de Silène (Silène inflata), image du satyre âgé, ventru mais plein de sagesse…
Synonyms
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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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