sirocco
\si.ʁɔ.ko\
The verdict
“sirocco” is uncommon French (frequency #78,859 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,859
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En Méditerranée, vent brûlant venant du sud-est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sirocco · sirocco · French
sirocco · rank #78,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,859
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Siobhan
Nearest frequency peer: Siobhan (-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 « sirocco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Simoneau
Simoneau
21,145 corpus weight
- simulées
simulées
21,144 corpus weight
- Siobhan
Siobhan
21,143 corpus weight
- sirocco
sirocco
21,142 corpus weight
- snaps
snaps
21,141 corpus weight
- sociopathes
sociopathes
21,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sirocco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sirocco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁɔ.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sirocco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sirocco is uncommon French at frequency #78,859 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ʁɔ.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En Méditerranée, vent brûlant venant du sud-est.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sirocco, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sirocco, spelled S-I-R-O-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1En Méditerranée, vent brûlant venant du sud-est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sirocco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pittoresques coiffes en dentelles des femmes, légèrement frissonnantes sour le tiède sirocco, leur démarche ferme, leurs conversations sonores dans les rues; […].
Après huit heures de marche en terrain souvent difficile, par un sirocco étouffant et une température qui doit dépasser 60° au soleil, nous atteignons Ras El-Ma, la source de l’oued Fez, à douze kilomètres de la capitale.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).