sinuosité
\si.nɥɔ.zi.te\
The verdict
“sinuosité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est sinueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sinuosite · sinuosité · French
sinuosité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinuosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.nɥɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sinuosité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.nɥɔ.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
sinuosité has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sinuosité, spelled S-I-N-U-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est sinueux.
- 2Les tours et détours que fait une chose sinueuse.
- 3Pour un tracé plan comportant au moins un point d’inflexion, longueur curviligne (selon le parcours) divisée par la distance (ligne droite) entre les 2 points extrêmes du tracé considéré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sinuosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À chaque nouvelle peine trop forte, nous sentons une veine de plus qui saille et développe sa sinuosité mortelle au long de notre tempe, sous nos yeux.
La pourpre de ses lèvres était rehaussée par les sinuosités de l'inévitable moustache noire.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.