syllabus
\si.la.bys\
The verdict
“syllabus” is uncommon French (frequency #83,411 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,411
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recueil de questions tranchées par l’autorité papale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-syllabus · syllabus · French
syllabus · rank #83,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,411
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH swallow
Nearest frequency peer: swallow (-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 « syllabus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surfaite
surfaite
16,594 corpus weight
- surfeuse
surfeuse
16,593 corpus weight
- svenska
svenska
16,592 corpus weight
- swallow
swallow
16,591 corpus weight
- syllabus
syllabus
16,590 corpus weight
- synthétisée
synthétisée
16,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « syllabus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | syllabus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.la.bys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « syllabus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
syllabus is uncommon French at frequency #83,411 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.la.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for syllabus, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 syllabus, spelled S-Y-L-L-A-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Recueil de questions tranchées par l’autorité papale.
- 2Photocopies ou imprimés servant de support à un cours d’université.
- 3Document synoptique dans lequel le contenu d’un enseignement universitaire est présenté sous la forme d’une table des matières commentée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how syllabus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si j’avais pu croire que la théologie et la Bible étaient la vérité, aucune des doctrines plus tard groupées dans le Syllabus, et qui, dès lors, étaient plus ou moins promulguées, ne m’eût causé la moindre émotion.
Au lieu d’écrire des Syllabus qui ne peuvent réjouir que des bilieux, chagrineux, chassieux, ces deux chefs de mon Église distribueraient leurs faveurs à celles et à ceux qui sauraient le mieux m’adorer…
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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