singer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,098
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
singer is aFrenchverb. It means: Imiter une personne en la tournant en dérision. Pronounced \sɛ̃.ʒe\. Often confused with songe and Singh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | singer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for singer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,098 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for singer, with forms such as "isnger", "sinegr", and "singerr". 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, "songe", "Singh", "single", 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 singer, spelled S-I-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Imiter une personne en la tournant en dérision.
- 2Simuler, feindre.
- 3Saupoudrer de farine des éléments que l’on a préalablement fait revenir dans de la matière grasse, farine que l’on laisse cuire légèrement avant de verser dessus un liquide de mouillement (lait, eau, bouillon) afin d’obtenir une sauce liée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isnger,sinegr,singerr,singger,singre,sinnger,sniger,ssinger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for singer
Misspelling Variants of "singer"
Frequency rank: #22,098 in French
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