singe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,628
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
singe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère de l’ordre des Primates, hors l’Homme, hors le lémurien. Pronounced \sɛ̃ʒ\. It ranks #7,628 in French word frequency. Often confused with site and sire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | singe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for singe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,628 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for singe, with forms such as "isnge", "sineg", and "singge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "site", "sire", "song", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 singe, spelled S-I-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère de l’ordre des Primates, hors l’Homme, hors le lémurien.
- 2Mammifère de l’ordre des Primates, l’homme inclus.
- 3Fourrure de certains de ces primates, comme le colobe.
- 4Personne qui contrefait, qui imite les gestes, les actions, les manières, le style d’autrui.
- 5Machine qui sert à élever et à descendre des fardeaux, et qui est formée d’un treuil tournant sur deux chevalets ou sur deux montants.
- 6Patron, supérieur hiérarchique.
- 7Protecteur, celui qui entretient une femme.
- 8Bœuf en conserve, corned-beef.
- 9Casse-croûte.
- 10Habitant de la vallée de la Rance (Ille-et-Vilaine) dite « la vallée des singes » car elle fournissait aux voiliers des jeunes hommes pour grimper dans les voilures avec agilité.
- 11Pantographe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isnge,sineg,singge,sinnge,snige,ssinge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "singe"
Frequency rank: #7,628 in French
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