sinople
\si.nɔpl\
The verdict
“sinople” is uncommon French (frequency #58,941 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,941
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de quartz hématoïde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sinople · sinople · French
sinople · rank #58,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,941
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sinistrées
Nearest frequency peer: sinistrées (-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 « sinople »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Severin
Severin
41,065 corpus weight
- signifiera
signifiera
41,063 corpus weight
- Simonin
Simonin
41,062 corpus weight
- sinistrées
sinistrées
41,061 corpus weight
- sinople
sinople
41,060 corpus weight
- SMUR
SMUR
41,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sinople » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinople |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.nɔpl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sinople » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sinople is uncommon French at frequency #58,941 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.nɔpl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sinople doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sinople, spelled S-I-N-O-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de quartz hématoïde.
- 2Émail de couleur verte que l’on utilise en blasonnement pour indiquer la couleur verte d’un élément des armoiries : écu, partition, pièce, meuble, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sinople appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le quartz sinople est tantôt cristallisé, et tantôt en masse ; dans le premier cas, il porte vulgairement le nom de hyacinthe occidental ou de Compostelle,
De sinople, au chef d’argent chargé de trois gouttes de sang de gueules, qui est d’Écurie du Pas-de-Calais.
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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