sorbier
\sɔʁ.bje\
The verdict
“sorbier” is uncommon French (frequency #64,790 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,790
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de rosacées, arbres ou arbustes ornementaux à feuilles composées, et aux petits fruits globuleux, rouge, orange ou bruns, appréciés des oiseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sorbier · sorbier · French
sorbier · rank #64,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,790
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH socioprofessi…
Nearest frequency peer: socioprofessionnelles (-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 « sorbier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sociolingui…
sociolinguistique
35,213 corpus weight
- socioprofes…
socioprofessionnelles
35,212 corpus weight
- sorbier
sorbier
35,211 corpus weight
- Spinelli
Spinelli
35,210 corpus weight
- splendid
splendid
35,209 corpus weight
- squale
squale
35,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sorbier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sorbier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.bje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sorbier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sorbier is uncommon French at frequency #64,790 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔʁ.bje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sorbier, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sorbier, spelled S-O-R-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Genre de rosacées, arbres ou arbustes ornementaux à feuilles composées, et aux petits fruits globuleux, rouge, orange ou bruns, appréciés des oiseaux.
- 2Sorbus subg. Sorbus, un des sous-genres de Sorbus (par opposition aux alisiers).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sorbier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bois des sorbiers, au grain serré, est utilisé en ébénisterie.
Il semble même, par l’exemple des fruits des diospyros, du sorbier et du néflier, qu’on ne peut manger que blets, que plus l’acerbité a été grande, plus le fruit est susceptible de blessir régulièrement.
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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