sins
\sɪnz\
The verdict
“sins” is uncommon French (frequency #61,147 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe sin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sins · sins · French
sins · rank #61,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,147
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sinistrée
Nearest frequency peer: sinistrée (-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 « sins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sheng
sheng
38,857 corpus weight
- sinistrée
sinistrée
38,855 corpus weight
- sins
sins
38,854 corpus weight
- SIRET
SIRET
38,853 corpus weight
- situaient
situaient
38,852 corpus weight
- skater
skater
38,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɪnz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sins is uncommon French at frequency #61,147 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɪnz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe sin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sins in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sins, spelled S-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe sin.
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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