silure
\si.lyʁ\
The verdict
“silure” is uncommon French (frequency #79,746 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,746
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des espèces de grands poissons osseux surtout d’eau douce, très allongés, souvent dotés de barbillons, à tête plate, à peau lisse et molle ou couverte de plaques osseuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silure · silure · French
silure · rank #79,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,746
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signifiaient
Nearest frequency peer: signifiaient (-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 « silure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sheep
sheep
20,258 corpus weight
- shiba
shiba
20,257 corpus weight
- signifiaient
signifiaient
20,256 corpus weight
- silure
silure
20,255 corpus weight
- silurien
silurien
20,254 corpus weight
- silvano
silvano
20,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « silure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « silure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
silure is uncommon French at frequency #79,746 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une des espèces de grands poissons osseux surtout d’eau douce, très allongés, souvent dotés de barbillons, à tête plate, à peau lisse et molle ou couverte de plaques osseuses.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for silure, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 silure, spelled S-I-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de grands poissons osseux surtout d’eau douce, très allongés, souvent dotés de barbillons, à tête plate, à peau lisse et molle ou couverte de plaques osseuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tudieu s'exclama Harry Dickson, en examinant les longs filaments qui dépassaient de la tête du monstre aquatique, un silure ! Je comprends la terreur et la fin du pauvre diable qui se hasarda dans ces eaux maudites.
Le corps du silure s’apparente à un véritable sonar vivant : sa ligne latérale, son oreille interne l’informent avec précision sur tout ce qui bouge dans son environnement proche, même lorsque l’eau est opaque.
This word in other languages
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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