stigma
\stiɡ.ma\
The verdict
“stigma” is uncommon French (frequency #70,235 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,235
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ϛ, Ϛ, ancienne ligature de l’alphabet grec notant le groupe στ (sigma-tau), qui ne s’est conservée dans l’écriture actuelle que pour la numération alphabétique milésienne où elle vaut 6.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stigma · stigma · French
stigma · rank #70,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,235
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stony
Nearest frequency peer: stony (+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 « stigma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- srs
srs
29,770 corpus weight
- SST
SST
29,769 corpus weight
- stabilisent
stabilisent
29,768 corpus weight
- stigma
stigma
29,766 corpus weight
- stony
stony
29,765 corpus weight
- stylisés
stylisés
29,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stigma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stigma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stiɡ.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stigma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stigma is uncommon French at frequency #70,235 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stiɡ.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ϛ, Ϛ, ancienne ligature de l’alphabet grec notant le groupe στ (sigma-tau), qui ne s’est conservée dans l’écriture actuelle que pour la numération alphabétique milésienne où elle vaut 6.".
stigma has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is stigma, spelled S-T-I-G-M-A.
Definition
- 1ϛ, Ϛ, ancienne ligature de l’alphabet grec notant le groupe στ (sigma-tau), qui ne s’est conservée dans l’écriture actuelle que pour la numération alphabétique milésienne où elle vaut 6.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stigma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un caillot sanguin, pas plus gros qu’un rubis coagulait sur son articulation, tout autour d’un stigma blafard, au contour ovoïdal, marquant l’incrustation du Zahir.
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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