singing
\ˈsɪŋ.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“singing” is uncommon French (frequency #76,131 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,131
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant, acte de chanter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-singing · singing · French
singing · rank #76,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,131
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signore
Nearest frequency peer: signore (-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 « singing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sidoine
Sidoine
23,874 corpus weight
- signifiants
signifiants
23,873 corpus weight
- signifiée
signifiée
23,872 corpus weight
- signore
signore
23,871 corpus weight
- singing
singing
23,870 corpus weight
- smala
smala
23,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « singing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | singing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɪŋ.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « singing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
singing is uncommon French at frequency #76,131 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsɪŋ.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chant, acte de chanter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for singing in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is singing, spelled S-I-N-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Chant, acte de chanter.
Synonyms
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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