sybille
\si.bil\
The verdict
“sybille” is uncommon French (frequency #59,668 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,668
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de sibylle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sybille · sybille · French
sybille · rank #59,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,668
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspendent
Nearest frequency peer: suspendent (-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 « sybille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supporteur
supporteur
40,336 corpus weight
- supposerait
supposerait
40,335 corpus weight
- suspendent
suspendent
40,334 corpus weight
- sybille
sybille
40,333 corpus weight
- SZ
SZ
40,332 corpus weight
- sédiment
sédiment
40,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sybille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sybille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.bil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sybille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sybille is uncommon French at frequency #59,668 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.bil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de sibylle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sybille in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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. The correct French form is sybille, spelled S-Y-B-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de sibylle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sybille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ce chœur compte 66 stalles superbement sculptée en ronde-bosse, en demi-reliefs ou en marqueteries fines, représentant des motifs d’une débordante variété : Vierge et saints, sybilles, et prophètes […]
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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