sinople

\si.nɔpl\

/\si.nɔpl\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sinople » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sinople
PropertyValue
Headwordsinople
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.nɔpl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#58,941
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sinople » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sinopletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « sinistrées » (#58,940), « Simonin » (#58,939), « signifiera » (#58,938). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sinople » est au #58,941. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Synonyme de quartz hématoïde.
  2. 2
    Émail 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 examples

These source excerpts show how sinople appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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,
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sinople"?
"sinople" is spelled S-I-N-O-P-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.nɔpl\.
What does "sinople" mean?
As a noun, "sinople" means: Synonyme de quartz hématoïde.
How do you pronounce "sinople"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sinople" is \si.nɔpl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sinople", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list