silla
\si.ja\
The verdict
“silla” is uncommon French (frequency #81,579 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,579
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe siller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silla · silla · French
silla · rank #81,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,579
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sifflante
Nearest frequency peer: sifflante (-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 « silla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- showrunner
showrunner
18,426 corpus weight
- Shylock
Shylock
18,425 corpus weight
- siel
siel
18,424 corpus weight
- sifflante
sifflante
18,423 corpus weight
- silla
silla
18,422 corpus weight
- smicard
smicard
18,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « silla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « silla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
silla is uncommon French at frequency #81,579 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe siller.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for silla, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is silla, spelled S-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe siller.
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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