sino
\ˈsĩː.no\
The verdict
“sino” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,539) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,539
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe sinañ/siniñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sino · sino · French
sino · rank #26,539 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,539
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Siam
Nearest frequency peer: Siam (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sino »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sermons
sermons
73,465 corpus weight
- shah
shah
73,464 corpus weight
- Siam
Siam
73,463 corpus weight
- sino
sino
73,462 corpus weight
- size
size
73,461 corpus weight
- siègent
siègent
73,460 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sino » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sino |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsĩː.no\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sino »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sino is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "sn", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈsĩː.no\. Frequency #26,539 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe sinañ/siniñ.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for sino, with forms such as "isno", "snio", and "ssino". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "sn", "son", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sino, spelled S-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe sinañ/siniñ.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isno
- snio
- ssino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sino - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sino", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).