sinus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,185
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sinus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Formation anatomique creuse, liquidienne ou pneumatique. Pronounced \si.nys\. Often confused with sus and sis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.nys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sinus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.nys\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,185 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sinus, with forms such as "isnus", "sinnus", and "sinsu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sus", "sis", "sous", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sinus, spelled S-I-N-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formation anatomique creuse, liquidienne ou pneumatique.
- 2Cavité pneumatique irrégulière de certains os du crane.
- 3Aspect dilaté de certains vaisseaux, de certains conduits.
- 4Le sinus d’un angle dans un triangle rectangle est égal au rapport de la longueur du coté opposé à l’angle par celle de l’hypoténuse. Si on oriente les angles, le sinus est un nombre compris entre −1 et +1.
- 5Fonction trigonométrique. C’est une fonction de la variable réelle qui, à chaque réel α, associe le sinus de l’angle orienté de mesure α radians. Elle peut être définie comme somme d'une série entière convergente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isnus,sinnus,sinsu,sinuss,siuns,snius,ssinus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sinus
Misspelling Variants of "sinus"
Frequency rank: #26,185 in French
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