sinécure
\si.ne.kyʁ\
The verdict
“sinécure” is uncommon French (frequency #59,641 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,641
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Place ou titre qui produit des émoluments et qui n’oblige à aucun travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sinecure · sinécure · French
sinécure · rank #59,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,641
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sintra
Nearest frequency peer: Sintra (-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 « sinécure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sik
sik
40,364 corpus weight
- sila
sila
40,363 corpus weight
- Sintra
Sintra
40,361 corpus weight
- sinécure
sinécure
40,360 corpus weight
- slack
slack
40,359 corpus weight
- sociables
sociables
40,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sinécure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinécure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ne.kyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sinécure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sinécure is uncommon French at frequency #59,641 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ne.kyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
sinécure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sinécure, spelled S-I-N-É-C-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Place ou titre qui produit des émoluments et qui n’oblige à aucun travail.
- 2Emploi fortement rémunéré pour très peu de travail.
- 3Chose ou expérience agréable et/ou ne demandant pas d'effort. Note d’usage : utilisé dans une forme négative pour indiquer que c’est désagréable ou demande de grands efforts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sinécure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de plus difficile à déloger d’une sinécure, que des fainéants sans valeur personnelle.
J’ai de traitement, de mes sinécures, de l’Académie et de mon libraire, environ trente mille francs par an, fortune énorme pour un garçon.
Synonyms
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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