Sintra
The verdict
“Sintra” is uncommon French (frequency #59,640 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,640
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité portugaise située dans le district de Lisbonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sintra · Sintra · French
Sintra · rank #59,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,640
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sinécure
Nearest frequency peer: sinécure (+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 « Sintra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sifflée
sifflée
40,365 corpus weight
- sik
sik
40,364 corpus weight
- sila
sila
40,363 corpus weight
- Sintra
Sintra
40,361 corpus weight
- sinécure
sinécure
40,360 corpus weight
- slack
slack
40,359 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sintra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sintra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sintra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sintra is uncommon French at frequency #59,640 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Municipalité portugaise située dans le district de Lisbonne.".
Sintra has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Sintra, spelled S-I-N-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Municipalité portugaise située dans le district de Lisbonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sintra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, Starck, qui vit avec sa femme et leur fille à Sintra, au Portugal, ne passe qu’en coup de vent, un jour par mois, dans la capitale.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).