sitar
\si.taʁ\
The verdict
“sitar” is uncommon French (frequency #84,316 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,316
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique indien à cordes pincées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sitar · sitar · French
sitar · rank #84,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,316
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silène
Nearest frequency peer: silène (-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 « sitar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Siffredi
Siffredi
15,688 corpus weight
- Sigourney
Sigourney
15,687 corpus weight
- silène
silène
15,686 corpus weight
- sitar
sitar
15,685 corpus weight
- skateurs
skateurs
15,684 corpus weight
- Skikda
Skikda
15,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sitar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sitar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sitar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sitar is uncommon French at frequency #84,316 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument de musique indien à cordes pincées.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sitar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sitar, spelled S-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique indien à cordes pincées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sitar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre sitar personnel est un organisme vivant, doté d'un potentiel sans limite.
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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