sismicité
\sis.mi.si.te\
The verdict
“sismicité” is uncommon French (frequency #91,175 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,175
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité sismique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sismicite · sismicité · French
sismicité · rank #91,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,175
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH singers
Nearest frequency peer: singers (-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 « sismicité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- silicones
silicones
8,828 corpus weight
- singers
singers
8,827 corpus weight
- sismicité
sismicité
8,826 corpus weight
- skiff
skiff
8,825 corpus weight
- slender
slender
8,824 corpus weight
- sloop
sloop
8,823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sismicité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sismicité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sis.mi.si.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sismicité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sismicité is uncommon French at frequency #91,175 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sis.mi.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Activité sismique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sismicité, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sismicité, spelled S-I-S-M-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Activité sismique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sismicité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En deux siècles, la France a ressenti au minimum 751 séismes. L'intensité de chaque secousse est estimée sur l'échelle MSK adaptée aux pays de sismicité modérée et, de ce fait, utilisée en France et dans la plupart des pays européens.
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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