sinistré
\si.nis.tʁe\
The verdict
“sinistré” is uncommon French (frequency #66,348 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,348
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a subi un sinistre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sinistre · sinistré · French
sinistré · rank #66,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,348
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simulacres
Nearest frequency peer: simulacres (-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 « sinistré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sides
sides
33,657 corpus weight
- sidérée
sidérée
33,656 corpus weight
- siena
siena
33,655 corpus weight
- simulacres
simulacres
33,654 corpus weight
- sinistré
sinistré
33,653 corpus weight
- Solon
Solon
33,649 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sinistré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinistré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.nis.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sinistré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sinistré is uncommon French at frequency #66,348 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.nis.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a subi un sinistre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sinistré, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sinistré, spelled S-I-N-I-S-T-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a subi un sinistre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sinistré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je décline pour ne pas froisser Chaglaate. Je fais comme le plombier auquel la dame sinistrée proposait la botte et qui préférait un coup de rouge.
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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