siren
\ˈsaɪərən\
The verdict
“siren” is uncommon French (frequency #58,269 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,269
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sirène (alarme).
Corpus desk
Index FR-siren · siren · French
siren · rank #58,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,269
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Simonnet
Nearest frequency peer: Simonnet (-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 « siren »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shoe
shoe
41,735 corpus weight
- sidère
sidère
41,734 corpus weight
- Simonnet
Simonnet
41,733 corpus weight
- siren
siren
41,732 corpus weight
- siro
siro
41,731 corpus weight
- sleepy
sleepy
41,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « siren » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | siren |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsaɪərən\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « siren » en français
Rare enough to double-check
siren is uncommon French at frequency #58,269 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsaɪərən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for siren, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 siren, spelled S-I-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Sirène (alarme).
- 2Sirène.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).