sirop

/\si.ʁo\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,560

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sirop is aFrenchnoun. It means: Solution de sucre dans l'eau. Pronounced \si.ʁo\. It ranks #9,560 in French word frequency. Often confused with stop and soro.

Key facts for sirop
PropertyValue
Headwordsirop
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.ʁo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,560
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sirop in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sirop is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,560 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 sirop, with forms such as "isrop", "siorp", and "siropp". 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, "stop", "soro", "strip", 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 sirop, spelled S-I-R-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Solution de sucre dans l'eau.
  2. 2
    Liquide formé d’une dissolution de sucre, à laquelle on ajoute parfois le suc de certains fruits, herbes ou fleurs (ou, exceptionnellement, d'une autre base), et qu’on fait cuire jusqu’à une certaine consistance.,
  3. 3
    État des confitures avant qu’elles aient pris consistance.
  4. 4
    Liquide épais et sucré, souvent aromatisé, appelé à être dilué pour créer une boisson.
  5. 5
    Médicament prenant la forme d'un liquide épais.
  6. 6
    Sirop d’érable.
  7. 7
    Évanouissement, perte de connaissance.
  8. 8
    Boisson alcoolisée.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: isrop,siorp,siropp,sirpo,sirrop,sriop,ssirop

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sirop

Misspelling Variants of "sirop"

isrop5siorp5siropp6sirpo5sirrop6sriop5ssirop6
Misspelling Variants of "sirop"

Frequency rank: #9,560 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sirop"?
"sirop" is spelled S-I-R-O-P. The IPA pronunciation is \si.ʁo\.
What does "sirop" mean?
As a noun, "sirop" means: Solution de sucre dans l'eau.
What words are commonly confused with "sirop"?
"sirop" is commonly confused with "stop", "soro", "strip". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sirop"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sirop" is \si.ʁo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sirop" come from?
"sirop" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.