sismicité

\sis.mi.si.te\

/\sis.mi.si.te\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sismicité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sismicité
PropertyValue
Headwordsismicité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sis.mi.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#91,175
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sismicité » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sismicitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « singers » (#91,174), « skiff » (#91,176), « silicones » (#91,173). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sismicité » est au #91,175. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Activité sismique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sismicité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sismicité"?
"sismicité" is spelled S-I-S-M-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sis.mi.si.te\.
What does "sismicité" mean?
As a noun, "sismicité" means: Activité sismique.
How do you pronounce "sismicité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sismicité" is \sis.mi.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sismicité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list