sylphe
French, noun/silf/
sylphe is spelled S-Y-L-P-H-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sylphe is a French masculine noun meaning “sylph (the elemental being of air)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Génie de l’air des mythologies celte, notamment gauloise, et germanique”.
What does sylphe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesylph (the elemental being of air)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Génie de l’air des mythologies celte, notamment gauloise, et germanique. 2. Genre d’oiseaux-mouches de la sous-famille des trochilinés comprenant trois espèces d’aspect similaire qui se distinguent par leur bec particulièrement court au sein de cette sous-famille, leur très longue queue fourchue à rectrices étagées rappelant celle des porte-traînes, et leur coloration émeraude, turquoise ou saphir à reflets extrêmement luisants, et qui sont caractéristiques des forêts mon
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sylphe
- sylphes plural
- sylphide feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sylphe?
- /silf/
- \silf\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sylphe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sylphe in French?
sylphe appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).