sui generis

/\sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

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sui generis is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre. Pronounced \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\.

Key facts for sui generis
PropertyValue
Headwordsui generis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sui generis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sui generis is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sui generis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sui generis, spelled S-U-I- -G-E-N-E-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sui generis"?
"sui generis" is spelled S-U-I- -G-E-N-E-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\.
What does "sui generis" mean?
As an adj, "sui generis" means: Qui est particulier, spécial, qu’on ne peut comparer à rien d’autre.
How do you pronounce "sui generis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sui generis" is \sɥi ʒe.ne.ʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.