sinécure
\si.ne.kyʁ\
The verdict
“sinécure” is an uncommon French word, ranked #59,641 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,641
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Place ou titre qui produit des émoluments et qui n’oblige à aucun travail.
| 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) |
Where “sinécure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sinécure is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ne.kyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #59,641 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sinécure 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 sinécure, spelled S-I-N-É-C-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-I-N-É-C-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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