sip

verb

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The verdict

“sip” is uncommon French (frequency #57,598 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,598
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Siroter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sip · sip · French

sip · rank #57,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,598
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Smolensk

Nearest frequency peer: Smolensk (+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 « sip »

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 « sip » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sip
PropertyValue
Headwordsip
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters3
Frequency rank#57,598
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sip » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).siptombe 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: « Smolensk » (#57,599), « sniffer » (#57,600), « shuffle » (#57,595). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sip » est au #57,598. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sip is uncommon French at frequency #57,598 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Siroter.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sip in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sip, spelled S-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Siroter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. She sips some tea. - Elle sirote un peu de thé.

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 "sip"?
"sip" is spelled S-I-P.
What does "sip" mean?
As a verb, "sip" means: Siroter.
What language does "sip" come from?
"sip" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

SDI#57,587rye#57,570RTM#57,567taz#57,635

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list