sycomore
\si.kɔ.mɔʁ\
The verdict
“sycomore” is uncommon French (frequency #56,956 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,956
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de figuier très courante en Égypte et au Proche-Orient dans l'Antiquité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sycomore · sycomore · French
sycomore · rank #56,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,956
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sympathisé
Nearest frequency peer: sympathisé (+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 « sycomore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surplace
surplace
43,048 corpus weight
- surprendrait
surprendrait
43,047 corpus weight
- sycomore
sycomore
43,045 corpus weight
- sympathisé
sympathisé
43,044 corpus weight
- synchronisés
synchronisés
43,043 corpus weight
- sédatifs
sédatifs
43,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sycomore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sycomore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.kɔ.mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sycomore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sycomore is uncommon French at frequency #56,956 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.kɔ.mɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sycomore doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sycomore, spelled S-Y-C-O-M-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de figuier très courante en Égypte et au Proche-Orient dans l'Antiquité.
- 2Arbre du genre des érables qui croît naturellement en France et qui sert à orner les parcs, les promenades, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sycomore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'originalité d'Ineni est précisément d'avoir pris la liberté de modifier le schéma auquel il eût dû se plier pour mettre en valeur un paysage plus prospère, correspondant vraisemblablement mieux à l'environnement qu'il connaissait et qui, dominé par des sycomores, des palmiers-dattiers et des palmiers-doum, incluait également des perséas, des caroubiers,…
Zachée qui était curieux a voulu le voir, mais contrairement au général de Gaulle il était de petite taille et il y avait foule autour de Jésus, alors Zachée est monté sur un sycomore.
Synonyms
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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