sisal
\si.zal\
The verdict
“sisal” is uncommon French (frequency #83,387 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,387
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante xérophyte du genre Agave (Agave sisalana), originaire du Mexique, cultivée pour ses longues feuilles rigides dont on extrait des fibres textiles solides, utilisées en corderie, en tapisserie...
Corpus desk
Index FR-sisal · sisal · French
sisal · rank #83,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,387
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Simoncini
Nearest frequency peer: Simoncini (-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 « sisal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Simo
Simo
16,616 corpus weight
- Simoncini
Simoncini
16,615 corpus weight
- sisal
sisal
16,614 corpus weight
- snuff
snuff
16,613 corpus weight
- sociopoliti…
sociopolitiques
16,612 corpus weight
- Sodebo
Sodebo
16,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sisal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sisal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.zal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sisal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sisal is uncommon French at frequency #83,387 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.zal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
sisal has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sisal, spelled S-I-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Plante xérophyte du genre Agave (Agave sisalana), originaire du Mexique, cultivée pour ses longues feuilles rigides dont on extrait des fibres textiles solides, utilisées en corderie, en tapisserie ou dans l’industrie des matériaux composites.
- 2La fibre elle-même.
- 3Fibre issue de cette plante qui sert à la fabrication de cordage, de tissus grossiers, de tapis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sisal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ensuite, elle sortait des fibres de sisal ou des feuilles de bananiers d’un sac en plastique pour confectionner des dessous de verre et des paniers coniques.
Outre le lit Picot, la pièce était meublée d’un ancien secrétaire à cylindre en bois sombre poussé contre le mur, d’un fauteuil pivotant hors d’âge, d’un tapis de sisal et d’une armoire à colonne en fer dont la plupart des cases regorgeaient de formulaires périmés de passage en douane, de commandes ou de remises, de carbones secs et de rames de mince papi…
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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