siphonner
\si.fɔ.ne\
The verdict
“siphonner” is uncommon French (frequency #67,883 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,883
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transvaser, soutirer, vider au moyen d’un siphon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-siphonner · siphonner · French
siphonner · rank #67,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,883
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH situera
Nearest frequency peer: situera (+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 « siphonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shlomo
Shlomo
32,121 corpus weight
- simultanéité
simultanéité
32,120 corpus weight
- siphonner
siphonner
32,118 corpus weight
- situera
situera
32,117 corpus weight
- slick
slick
32,116 corpus weight
- sociopoliti…
sociopolitique
32,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « siphonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | siphonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.fɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « siphonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
siphonner is uncommon French at frequency #67,883 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.fɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for siphonner, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is siphonner, spelled S-I-P-H-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Transvaser, soutirer, vider au moyen d’un siphon.
- 2Voler, soutirer.
- 3Vider.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how siphonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous rassemblez alors vos tout derniers sous, attendez l’ouverture d’une quelconque pharmacie pour acheter un kit de lavement, afin de siphonner des automobiles, quand enfin la pharmacie ouvre, vous êtes mort de froid, vous payez votre achat, et là, la dame vous dit : — Vous ne prenez que le tuyau, pas la poire ?
Il m’a dépanné en siphonnant quelques litres d'essence de son réservoir.
This word in other languages
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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